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This has probably been asked before, but is Bitbucket really unlimited? If I encrypt my drive, convert it to ASCII, and upload it, will they host it?
Good luck committing an image of your hard drive into git or hg. Seriously, though, the limitations of git and mercurial with respect to large files probably prevent them from having to deal with this kind of thing.
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Yeah, I don't have those people in any meaningful capacity. If I did then hg would immediately be a strong contender. With regards to the philosophical difference, I see where you're coming from. This is the reason I use OS X instead of Linux for instance, it's more important for me to have a simple and usable GUI than to have ultimate control and flexibility. With text editors and version control systems I don't fee…
I never said "newbie-friendliness," though I can see how that might have been implied by my last post. I said "user-friendliness", which I think also lends itself to easier uptake from novices. Sorry for the confusion. I know vim quite well. I still consider it onerous and unpleasant to use, and I find claims of its "power" to be overstated; I have noted before and still think to be true that editing text isn't the h…
> but Cmd-X will still be cut and Cmd-V will
> still be paste
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we'll see how GH responds in the face of competition like this. Now I no longer need to go beyond the $7/month github plan. I could see GH creating an "unlimited" account for $20/month that allows up to 3mb of files and unlimited repos.
I think an appropriate GH response would be to make a few/all personal (aka 0 collaborators) private repos free.
They have a great business model - free repos for OSS drives users, then they get users to pay a smallish (in absolute terms) cost for private repos. All they need is the million odd developers who use their system for OSS, and they will shake a few bucks out of each somehow. There's no need for them and BB to compete as though they were selling commodity products. Both are competing on getting people used to their interface (by OSS products) and then charging then whatever they think won't cause too much pain.
That said, people with lots of small repos are feeling unnecessary pain from Github's pricing scheme.
I'm now a BitBucket user. I'll keep using GitHub for my open source stuff, but you betcha that my private repos are going on BitBucket. I'd love to see GitHub step up and compete here, but I'm really perfectly happy to use two products for two different use cases.
bitbucket for your private repos, promote to github for when they become open-source to benefit from the larger community
i believe github might end up charging for public repos, rather than reducing the prices for private ones ;)
This has probably been asked before, but is Bitbucket really unlimited? If I encrypt my drive, convert it to ASCII, and upload it, will they host it?
Good luck committing an image of your hard drive into git or hg. Seriously, though, the limitations of git and mercurial with respect to large files probably prevent them from having to deal with this kind of thing.
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> incomplete projects? It depends on what you mean by "incomplete". 50 lines of code which do almost nothing useful are probably not worth publishing. But why not publishing a half-complete project? Publishing may help you find contributors. And the early feedback helps you to decide if your project is worth more intense attention. > Messy/hacky experiments? If the code is not too bad, I publish even that stuff (as l…
what's the Free Software clone of a game?
Usually, the game principle stays the same, but has its own codebase, and different graphics and music. Sometimes names are changed, too, if the original names were trademarked. After some time, the Free Software clones usually surpass the original game in almost every aspect.
This is a great way for a fan community to push forward their favorite game long after the producers lost their (commercial) interest in it.
This is also some kind of sustainability, as it ensures the game won't die with the hardware it was produced for.
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I think an appropriate GH response would be to make a few/all personal (aka 0 collaborators) private repos free.
This is a _stellar_ idea. I just wonder if there's a bit of a culture-jam here. It'd tempt you to not open up projects as freely, which seems at odds with the ideals of the GH camp.
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> But for my private projects GitHub is totally useless and also expensive, which is why I have been hosting my own Git repo on an instance that I own - it's pretty easy to setup too. Ditto. There's a number of projects that I just won't put online because I'd rather lose than share them. With Bitbucket it looks like I'll be able to stash them privately, for free. I'm totally psyched that Bitbucket has given this goo…
> I'd rather lose than share them You don't have a backup system?
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Many serious developers opt to keep as much of their source open as they can. It's not uncommon to find dozens of public side projects in the repository list of Github users. Occasionally someone will stumble on something interesting and collaborators will sprout. This is far less common on Bitbucket. Github's pricing policy seems to strongly encourage community and collaboration, and it works wonders.
As a student I make regular use of private repos because publishing answers to marked coursework is frowned upon.
This is great news, very exciting for people who need a nice place to stash all their private git repos but didn't want to upgrade their GitHub plans for not-that-important projects. Very interesting that they've decided to compete directly too. I wonder if/how GitHub will respond. I strongly prefer their UI and already have a paid plan, but I find myself shuffling repos within the confines of that plan rather than s…
This x100. I love GitHub's user interface but as a poor student couldn't justify them for my private projects (until I found their free student plan), so I used BitBucket. BitBucket is very good from a pricing and support point of view (and I actually preferred Mercurial before I learnt Git properly) but it's not nearly as polished as GitHub - one thing that springs to mind (it might have been fixed) was it trying to…