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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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eeeeeeeeeeeee wrote: post #564
fipple wrote: post #482

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft isn't even trying to directly make money off GitHub Enterprise. What they're doing is plugging GitHub into a giant ecosystem of Azure-related services that they sell to large corporations for millions of dollars per year per customer. They could give away GitHub for free entirely, and might, if there's a one-click "deploy to Azure" and similar functionality that brings people into the Microsoft shop.

Yep, exactly, and the lock-in on Azure is much better. It’s near trivial to switch between hosted Git providers. Integrations/hooks/CI add some stickyness which is probably why places like Gitlab focus on offering CI to be more than simply “git in the cloud.”

Exactly.

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Post by sytse »

yhoiseth wrote: post #457
sytse wrote: post #325

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I'm sorry to hear you left GitLab. We're working on making sure GitLab offers a great PaaS experience https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/111 (I posted in there 3 days ago, hopefully indicating this is important to us)

This is great news. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. I'm not sure how relevant it is to you, but I hope you take some inspiration from https://platform.sh/ – it's the PaaS I've had the most luck with. While it isn't perfect, it's the closest thing I've found so far. Their "almost everything is in git" and instant environment cloning are fantastic features.

Thanks, the instant environment cloning looks nice. Does that also clone the database and redis?

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Post by pcx »

0x0 wrote: post #286
nickjj wrote: post #232

While 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…

Also, the best part about gitlab CI - it's super easy to install gitlab-runner on your own and enjoy unlimited build minutes, even on the free plan. Plus you get to set up your buildbot environment just the way you like - even with access to LAN-only resources in case you need them.

We did this for our project and our builds sped up considerably. Also, Digital Ocean provides a quick solution to setup a GitLab runner on their cloud.

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Post by jjakque »

To me, the biggest revelation out of this news was actually finding out both BitBucket and GitLab already offers unlimited free private repos. I am now highly incentivised to move away from self-hosted git server in order to store my micro project repos which are heading to 3 digits.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

boramalper wrote: post #259

Competition 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…

So, it's a loss leader.

Seems like we've been here before.

All the breathless hyperbole AGAINST "EEE," and yet, we're watching Microsoft destroy another market.

But they "love" Linux, and open source.

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Post by guessmyname »

ransom1538 wrote: post #59

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> Everything Github does is great!

> (I say this -- because last time I said something negative they banned me).

> https://imgur.com/a/WvC3qpM

I have the impression that they banned your GitHub account because of your username [1].

[1] https://github.com/ransom1538

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Post by boramalper »

nickik wrote: post #450
boramalper wrote: post #384

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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 competit…

The term monopoly has a meaning in economics and even in normal conversation. Saying they have monopoly because they have lot of mindshare is crazy talk.

I said “it’s on the way of becoming one”, not that it’s currently a monopoly.
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