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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by halayli » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 9:21 AM UTC

piotrkaminski wrote: post #160

halayli wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just want to say thanks for creating an awesome suite of products that integrates nicely and seamlessly together. Re: stash. It's by far the best code review product I've used. And I've tried plenty!

Hey Hasan, have you tried https://reviewable.io ? I'd love to get your feedback / comparison with Stash if you have a moment! (It's not a direct competitor as it's specific to GitHub, but I'd love to know how it measures up against your favorite.) Thanks.

I haven't actually, but I just looked at it and while it seems very well thought of, the first thing I miss from stash is the fact that It doesn't show me the whole file by default, just the diffs. And I can comment on lines outside the diffs, which is often needed. I could't find a way in reviewable to comment on a line. Stash shows the comments near the lines which makes it easy to follow.

In stash, I see the list of files on the left, and clicking on each file shows me the diffs. I also have the option to see the diff only (without the whole file).

Where I work we cannot use outside review tools, it has to be hosted internally. But I don't think we are your target audience in this case.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by piotrkaminski » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 9:28 AM UTC

halayli wrote: post #161

piotrkaminski wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Hasan, have you tried https://reviewable.io ? I'd love to get your feedback / comparison with Stash if you have a moment! (It's not a direct competitor as it's specific to GitHub, but I'd love to know how it measures up against your favorite.) Thanks.

I haven't actually, but I just looked at it and while it seems very well thought of, the first thing I miss from stash is the fact that It doesn't show me the whole file by default, just the diffs. And I can comment on lines outside the diffs, which is often needed. I could't find a way in reviewable to comment on a line. Stash shows the comments near the lines which makes it easy to follow. In stash, I see the list…

Cool, thanks! You need to sign in to leave comments, and they are indeed attached to specific lines (either in or outside the diff). They even move across revisions of a file as you iterate on the review... And yeah, you can easily expand to see a whole file if you want.

I figured that Reviewable wasn't the right tool for you / your company -- I was just looking for your opinion. Cheers!

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by fezzik02 » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #18

My team has just started looking for a github replacement because the code review workflow is just not working for us, we need something with more structure. I think there's plenty of space for feature and price competition, especially for private repos where github's social network effects don't matter as much.

Hi! I'm a Developer Advocate over at Atlassian, and I'd like to point out that Stash offers extensible merge controls through merge request check plugins. In addition to pre-configured and third-party plugins, an open API allows you to make custom merge requirements.

https://developer.atlassian.com/stash/docs/latest/tutorials-...

In Bitbucket, we don't support this yet, but we do allow branch restrictions to ensure only trusted users are able to merge sensitive branches and many teams find this to be a suitable proxy for that behavior.

https://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/09/16/take-control-with-bran...

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by bsimpson » Thu, Jul 09, 2015, 9:38 AM UTC

csells wrote: post #109

bsimpson wrote: post #83

500 MB lifetime storage doesn't seem like a whole lot.

To be clear, this is the current limit in beta and it's per repo, so if you have multiple cloud projects, you get multiple repos. We're thinking about adding support for multiple repos per project in the future. Would that be useful? Also, and we're planning on upping the limit once we reach GA. What do you think a reasonable limit should be for a git repo? Our goal is to strike the right balance between usefulness a…

You should absolutely support multiple git repos per project. If someone writes npm-compatible modular JavaScript code, it wouldn't be hard to have a dozen proprietary repos supporting a single reasonably sized project.