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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#21
Pretty angry that Github have made this change with no mechanism for adding machine users without paying a per month charge. It seems like a key feature, which is currently horribly painful to manage and now expensive.

How does everyone else create credentials that CI can use to checkout code?

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#22
post #11

Yay! No more bitbucket for all my private repos. I wonder if this change is because of competition?

BitBucket allows unlimited private repos for free ; GitHub's seems to be just for the paid plans?

Yup no reason to move from bit bucket yet.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#23
post #12

Does anyone know if this will effect student plans as well? So far it included a free micro plan with the usual 5 private repos. Would be pretty awesome, I just had to host a repo somewhere else a few days ago because I ran out of private repos. Other than that it sounds like a great improvement, it'll make it a lot more likely that I'll pay for GitHub when I'm not a student anymore. /edit: https://github.com/pricing…

Good question! Students get free private repositories for 2 years. You can request the student discount at https://education.github.com/

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#25
post #19
post #9

With this change, BitBucket pricing [0] gets to appear pretty attractive. (If you were an organization with few private repositories and large number of users, Github was earlier more affordable.) [0] https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing?tab=cloud-pricing

It was already pretty attractive: Personal accounts get free unlimited repos (so inf% cheaper than github), and for organizations with few numbers of users but a huge number of repositories, github's largest plan was too small. :)

> Personal accounts get free unlimited repos

And teams of up to 5 people.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#27
post #12

Does anyone know if this will effect student plans as well? So far it included a free micro plan with the usual 5 private repos. Would be pretty awesome, I just had to host a repo somewhere else a few days ago because I ran out of private repos. Other than that it sounds like a great improvement, it'll make it a lot more likely that I'll pay for GitHub when I'm not a student anymore. /edit: https://github.com/pricing…

Good question! Students get free private repositories for 2 years. You can request the student discount at https://education.github.com/

Awesome, thanks for the confirmation :)

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#29
post #21

Pretty angry that Github have made this change with no mechanism for adding machine users without paying a per month charge. It seems like a key feature, which is currently horribly painful to manage and now expensive. How does everyone else create credentials that CI can use to checkout code?

Deploy keys

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#30
post #21

Pretty angry that Github have made this change with no mechanism for adding machine users without paying a per month charge. It seems like a key feature, which is currently horribly painful to manage and now expensive. How does everyone else create credentials that CI can use to checkout code?

Both Travis and Circle automatically install a deploy key into the project. It doesn't require additional machine users.
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