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Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by LinaLauneBaer »

simfoo wrote: post #268
LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #267

I would love to use Github but I am using Bitbucket instead because I can only pay via credit card at Github and I don't want to own a credit card.

This. I am a young student from Germany and at least in my environment almost nobody owns a credit card. Why should we when you can pay everywhere with your debit card (without fees!). AWS, I'm looking at you :/

Same here. :) I asked GitHub about this via mail because I couldn't believe that they are only accepting credit cards... Sad but true. I would even send them money one year in advance to get my private repository but now I am using bitbucket for a couple of months now - even for customer projects.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by robgough »

pimentel wrote: post #262
bryanh wrote: post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

> (not counting places 1-10 for enterprise source control, which basically print money, and of which GitHub is chasing too). What kind of source control do big corps use? Don't they just use SVN, with enormous budget for maintenance contracts?

Perforce and TFS (Team Foundation Server) are other choices that I've seen used in large corps.

(TFS obviously for Microsoft houses only.)

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by masklinn »

kanzure wrote: post #247
pjscott wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not yet it isn't. In the current UI, to get to the source code, you have to 1. Find the little "Source" link and click it. 2. Find the "Browse" link, which is in a little toolbar right under the other little toolbar, next to the (less relevant) "Changes" and "Clones" links, which look visually near-identical. 3. In most (but not all) projects, hunt down the word "trunk" in tiny 13px text, and click it to see the main…

> but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad. After five years or whatever of being tricked into clicking Launchpad links, I just noticed the other day that they have a "source" link on the top left corner. I had no idea they actually displayed source code. I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Who knew?

> I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product.

Hah. Got you, it's also a crappy project-hosting product, a crappy code-hosting product, a crappy code review product and a crappy FQA/Q&A product. And an acceptable translation product (not as good as Transifex, but it's free, bit it requires using the rest of that crap).

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by Flimm »

masklinn wrote: post #274
kanzure wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad. After five years or whatever of being tricked into clicking Launchpad links, I just noticed the other day that they have a "source" link on the top left corner. I had no idea they actually displayed source code. I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Who knew?

> I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Hah. Got you, it's also a crappy project-hosting product, a crappy code-hosting product, a crappy code review product and a crappy FQA/Q&A product. And an acceptable translation product (not as good as Transifex, but it's free, bit it requires using the rest of that crap).

I've always liked the bug-tracker. It's much more user-friendly than bugzilla IMO, and it handles bugs that affect multiple projects really well, even when the other projects use other bug trackers.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by [deleted] »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #150
nivloc wrote: post #131

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It's a different way to price products - they charge per user. So, if your little startup starts growing, they bring in a bit of cash and have opportunities to up-sell with the other products in their line.

If my startup grew past 5 team members, I would personally just move my private repos to GitHub and start paying them. Bitbucket provides a great free service, but I'd probably never pay for it.

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Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by lee »

krzyk wrote: post #261
taligent wrote: post #155

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Are you mad ? $7 a month is nothing for something that you are going to use countless times whilst developing your product. And no offense but Bitbucket is still a clunky mess that lacks the most critical feature: integration with almost every open source project.

Could you elaborate on "integration with almost every open source project" ? I don't get it. For me github (and git) is like iPhone, a place for the "cool kids", and bitbucket for the rest of us :) Mostly because some github/git/iPhone/Mac enthusiasts are rather loud and fanboy-like - this destroys git experience for me. I prefer calm mercurial/linux enviroment :)

> mercurial/linux environment

What? You mean Github (which hosts the Linux kernel repository) and runs git (written by Linus Torvalds) is not linux-like?

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by pnelson »

tayl0r wrote: post #270

It's hilarious how difficult it is to get a non-programmer on Windows setup on Bitbucket (to clone a repo and then push a commit). I don't blame this on Bitbucket, I blame the state of Windows Git applications. My friend who is an artist (pretty technical too but he's not a programmer and never deals with SSH) is going to do some art for me for a game project I have in Bitbucket. I added him to my repo and told him t…

I'm pretty sure you can use GitHub's Windows app for BitBucket Git repositories. I've pointed it to non-GitHub repositories at work in the past. You should look into it for your friend.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by ZoFreX »

citricsquid wrote: post #147
ZoFreX wrote: post #119

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The solution knocking around my head for this was a "sub-channel" for off-topic corrections to posts, so you can suggest a spelling or grammar alteration without a) cluttering the discussion or b) looking like a for calling them out.

The solution knocking around my head for this was a "sub-channel" for off-topic corrections to posts That seems like a great idea b) looking like a for calling them out. judging by the downvotes I guess people think I was trying to be a dick... then vs. than is a very common English error, I figured he'd rather know than continue to be wrong. I would have emailed if he had an email in his profile, but nope. oh well.

Regarding the second half, I find that problematic. Sometimes it's very clear to me that English is not someone's first language, and you can often tell what is by the mistakes they are making (for example, "I have been working here since 3 years" is a common mistake by native German speakers, as it's a direct translation of the equivalent phrase in German). In that situation I find many people are appreciative of stylistic notes, but it's hard to pull off without looking like a grammar [fascist].
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