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My $0.02 canadian; Build something that kicks Gitlab and Github's ass. What an opportunity. Support both BK and GIT repos. Provide a distributed workflow tha

My $0.02 canadian; Build something that kicks Gitlab and Github's ass. What an opportunity. Support both BK and GIT repos. Provide a distributed workflow that enterprises will love. Enterprises are obviously where the remaining dollars are. There are billions of dollars of inefficiencies in that sector. Many of these enterprises do NOT want to host their code on Github and are buying Gitlab. Be better than Gitlab.

augustz 10y ago
Great comment. Good points. Also - for enterprise, it's OK if the model ends up being a bit simpler than git - may actually be a positive. Give up some things, but get simplicity that scales to a 1,000 folks using some old VCS. Looking forward to some hopefully differentiated features.
jason_s 10y ago
^^ this. PLEASE. :-( Bitbucket has been rotting since Atlassian bought them, and now there's really no "killer app" for Mercurial hosting. There are Mercurial hosting services out there, but nothing anywhere close to Github/Gitlab.
- riffraff 10y ago
  doesn't github support mercurial?
  - cauterized 10y ago
    Nope, but Bitbucket does support git.
- marcinkuzminski 10y ago
  You should check out RhodeCode. It's no hosting platform, but hosting it yourself is much better. It support Mercurial, and all latest things that comes with it like phases, largefiles etc. Actually since BK is now opensource we might think of adding a BK backend to RhodeCode and our VCS abstraction layer that already supports GIT, Mercurial and Subversion
  - luckydude 10y ago
    We would love that. Contact dev@bitkeeper.org if you have any questions/issues.
nikatwork 10y ago
Github sucks for corporate version control, it's just not designed for the kind of strict role-based change control that enterprise needs. Great support though. I haven't checked out Bitbucket because last time I evaluated (2+ years ago) they didn't have good on-prem options.
aerique 10y ago
Just supporting big binary files in a hassle-free way would go a huge way to being better than Git and Gitlab.
- ryao 10y ago
  What would you consider to be hassle-free?
sytse 10y ago
At GitLab we're unlikely to support BK due to lack of demand. What do you mean with a distributed workflow, something like https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4084 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4084 ?

augustz 10y ago

Great comment. Good points. Also - for enterprise, it's OK if the model ends up being a bit simpler than git - may actually be a positive. Give up some things, but get simplicity that scales to a 1,000 folks using some old VCS. Looking forward to some hopefully differentiated features.

jason_s 10y ago

^^ this. PLEASE. :-( Bitbucket has been rotting since Atlassian bought them, and now there's really no "killer app" for Mercurial hosting. There are Mercurial hosting services out there, but nothing anywhere close to Github/Gitlab.

riffraff 10y ago
doesn't github support mercurial?
- cauterized 10y ago
  Nope, but Bitbucket does support git.
marcinkuzminski 10y ago
You should check out RhodeCode. It's no hosting platform, but hosting it yourself is much better. It support Mercurial, and all latest things that comes with it like phases, largefiles etc. Actually since BK is now opensource we might think of adding a BK backend to RhodeCode and our VCS abstraction layer that already supports GIT, Mercurial and Subversion
- luckydude 10y ago
  We would love that. Contact dev@bitkeeper.org if you have any questions/issues.

nikatwork 10y ago

Github sucks for corporate version control, it's just not designed for the kind of strict role-based change control that enterprise needs. Great support though. I haven't checked out Bitbucket because last time I evaluated (2+ years ago) they didn't have good on-prem options.

aerique 10y ago

Just supporting big binary files in a hassle-free way would go a huge way to being better than Git and Gitlab.

ryao 10y ago
What would you consider to be hassle-free?

sytse 10y ago

At GitLab we're unlikely to support BK due to lack of demand. What do you mean with a distributed workflow, something like https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4084 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4084 ?