"private" in the sense that only you and Microsoft can access it :)
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#382That would have been cool before I moved all my private stuff to gitlab.com. Ah well, too late.
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#383Good timing. I switched over to GitLab this morning to host my dotfiles because I have no other use for private repos on my personal GitHub account.
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#384Competition in a free market is good, but in the presence of monopolies, it's a self-destructing concept. TechCrunch wrote[0] "This feels like a sign of goodwill on behalf of Microsoft, which closed its acquisition of GitHub last October, with former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman taking over as GitHub’s CEO." I believe it's more of a sign of an attempt to kill GitHub's rivals by hurting their revenue streams. As Aaron Lev…
Code storage is a free market and GitHub is not a monopoly.
It’s currently the de facto solution, and it’s on the way of becoming a monopoly.
9 out of 10 companies I’ve applied to asked for my GitHub profile explicitly; I presume they would be equally happy with a link to Bitbucket or GitLab but it just shows that GitHub has already won the mindshare by far -which comes as no surprise-.
Now that they are acquired by Microsoft, they have more resources than any of its competitors.
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#385While I think this is a great move, don't forget that private repos also means no more free Travis CI. Gitlab CI however offers 2,000 build minutes a month with their integrated CI service. Even if your whole set up takes 10 minutes to build on CI, that's 200 builds a month which is plenty for an individual project that's on a private repo. In other words, I think Gitlab's free private repos + CI is still a better ch…
Me too, but I hope Microsoft add CI features inside GitHub in the future.
Azure Pipelines is already in the GitHub Marketplace and seems to be Microsoft's path they are paving.
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#386I am pretty sure, bitbucket is going to get hurt with this move, and a little hurt for gitlab too I suspect. But a very smart move specially for individual developers looking to work on small side projects.
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#387"Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece." So let's be clear here. If I have 10 private repos, I can have 30 collaborators? Or they must be the same three.
Also, if you fork a private repo, I wonder if that’s 3 new collaborators? Could you have essentially unlimited collaborators by forking for each person and having them submit pull requests?
If all collaborators have their one copy of the repo, you no longer need GitHub, because there's no longer a centralized repo. Just use git.
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course, like the trend "hey if it does not work for you write down your code"... On git only: what is another remote? A GitHub concurrent company? A personal dyndns from a single developer with a fable ADSL? On GitHub: many use it's proprietary characteristics like PR, wikies, pages etc. That's not "portable" to any other remote if you do not count site-scraping... No, we need to focus on distributed/decentralized…
> On git only: what is another remote? A remote is a URL location of a repository. A local git repo can point to multiple remotes by using the git remote functionality. For instance, you can point your local repo to GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket and choose which to push to using the command git push .
Hem, no perhaps is my poor English but you do not understand: I know what a git remote is. My point is what kind of "other remote" a typical FOSS project have these days?
In the past we have tons of hosters so we can easily spread our code in many "mirror", now there is GitHub and few others, mostly on the very same "cloud".
I mean you have no damn viable remote. Single devs can share code P2P but nothing that can work instantly out of the box.
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#389This makes me uncomfortable. Private subscriptions were a direct revenue stream for Github, and explained directly how they can afford the infrastructure that provides the service. Generally when previously paid stuff becomes free, it's because the paid service is no longer a product - it's now a tool to attract users. How will users be monetised now?
They're now owned by Microsoft. Critical difference between Microsoft and Google - Microsoft makes all of their money from direct sales and enterprise contracts for their primary products, including Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, ActiveDirectory, Office, etc, while Google makes their money from selling ads to you with as much targeting information as possible. So this is now a loss leader for Microsoft, primari…
(disclaimer, I work for Google, opinions are my own)
Depends on the product you are using and what kind of data you're talking about. For Google, GSuite (the old Google Apps and GCP) are more business focused and don't really capture data about you. Free-tier products will gather more data to better target ads to you or to provide useful features.
For Microsoft, they do try to sell you products... but you have to look at other products where they do gather data on you. I'm not sure what kind of data they get out of Bing and outlook.com/Hotmail. Then you have LinkedIn, which is all kinds of data gathering (though more Facebook style).
It's sort of hard to give blanket statements about many of the large tech companies, as they have multiple divisions and products that operate differently depending on the target markets.