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Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by johnsberd »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #66
shrineOfLies wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lately, the Web UI has been sucky, I relied on my username button quite a bit, now I have to perform two steps to go to my user page

Just went on Github and I can't believe they remove that button. Doesn't seem like anything is gained from it and I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses it daily. I really hope they reverse that change.

It's very annoying. To me a while of searching around to find the explore button also, which got grouped into that drop down. Hiding content in drop downs unnecessarily is very annoying.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by mariusmg »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #58
mwilcox wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, more of a competitor to Microsoft's Visual Studio Online than any of the social coding platforms: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-s...

Well, one part of VSO, since that includes Bugs/Build/Test. I don't really know many private source-only hosting providers though.

VSO is pretty great actually. Private source control, bug tracker / agile planner thingababoo and build all in once place. With the possibility to auto deploy on Azure if you need it.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by IanCal »

geofft wrote: post #26

The reason people use GitHub is everything around the git hosting: the web interface, the account system, pull requests and issues, forking, comments, wikis, Pages, even the desktop and mobile apps. Hosting git repositories is straightforward, by design. This article is only slightly more sensible than claiming that S3 is a GitHub competitor because you can git clone over HTTP.

I use GH because everyone else seems to, and while the UI is nice, I think the permissions system is utterly broken so I now have to have multiple accounts so that I can allow third party access to my repos but not every repo I have access to.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by d0vs »

exacube wrote: post #6

This article is just click bait. Pretty sure this product is just so you can store your code/repo for your project using Google's cloud services. It's part of a whole for their cloud offering.

It's not new either, it's been integrated into App Engine for a while

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by Kudos »

stock_toaster wrote: post #11

So they killed Google code to... launch another code hosting thing? Does Google have too many siloed product managers? Maybe you can only advance up the corporate ladder by releasing new products, and fuck all if they get killed later, because you got your promotion? No clue what the cause. Just seems weird looking on from the sidelines.

Google code was project hosting, not just source hosting. This clickbait article is talking about a Google product that just does source hosting and is a part of the overall Google public cloud product strategy.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by eatonphil »

im1983 wrote: post #73

Sorry, but I just can't trust them. I am absolutely sure that Google will shut it down in X years.

I don't understand the reasoning here, or you would benefit from dependent types. I am /also/ absolutely sure that /everything/ will shut down in X(company) years.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by waterflame »

nulltype wrote: post #69
Scarblac wrote: post #68

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Exactly this, it always sucks and it changes too often in completely random ways. Github's issue tracker is also very half baked, every real project has to has a Trac instance or so somewhere else. But _it has critical mass_, and pull requests and the way commenting them and testing them etc works is really awesome, and it'll be hard for a new competitor to get people to move.

That seems true, but only for open source projects. Why would it be hard for closed source projects (where github makes all their money) to move away?

It's actually simple. GitHub tests on their free users and see their reaction. If the feedback is positive, move it to paid clients. If not, keep frustrating your free clients so they move to paid accounts.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by pwelch »

IanCal wrote: post #84
geofft wrote: post #26

The reason people use GitHub is everything around the git hosting: the web interface, the account system, pull requests and issues, forking, comments, wikis, Pages, even the desktop and mobile apps. Hosting git repositories is straightforward, by design. This article is only slightly more sensible than claiming that S3 is a GitHub competitor because you can git clone over HTTP.

I use GH because everyone else seems to, and while the UI is nice, I think the permissions system is utterly broken so I now have to have multiple accounts so that I can allow third party access to my repos but not every repo I have access to .

Agreed. GitLab's permission system seems better for specific permissions so hopefully that will translate well when/if 3rd parties start writing plugins for it.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by lawira »

mariusmg wrote: post #82
mynameisvlad wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, one part of VSO, since that includes Bugs/Build/Test. I don't really know many private source-only hosting providers though.

VSO is pretty great actually. Private source control, bug tracker / agile planner thingababoo and build all in once place. With the possibility to auto deploy on Azure if you need it.

Didn't know much about this. Thanks for your sharing it here.
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