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In comparison, how many hosted repositories do BitBucket have? Tried Google with no luck.

• viraptor 16y ago
  http://bitbucket.org/repo/all/popular/2008/ http://bitbucket.org/repo/all/popular/2008/ is the last page of repos. At 15 items per page, that would give ~30120 repositories. But you have to take into account that on BitBucket you get one private repository for free, so I guess there's loads more of them than on GitHub. Also, I'm not sure if all repositories are on that list or not - they don't seem to filter it, since there are some repos 0bytes big at the end.
  • viraptor 16y ago
    Just found a way to do a similar thing on github: http://github.com/repositories/recent?page=8433 http://github.com/repositories/recent?page=8433 is the last page of repositories with 30 items per page - that gives ~252990 repositories. Not even close to the number cited in the article... I'd really like to know where does the difference come from.
    • jackowayed 16y ago
      That only gives you public repos. For one, they said that 40% of that 1M is gists (which would make it ~400k, which is more than the number of public repos. Which I guess makes sense since there are probably people that create a new gist almost every single day.) Also, there are lots of private repos that won't show up on the repo-browsing page.
      • viraptor 16y ago
        It's true that there are private repos, but with ~600k project repos and 252k public... I find it hard to believe that the rest are private. If they had ~350k private repos, they'd get between 385k$ and 490k$ per month - I assume that would be big news mentioned somewhere already...
        • pjhyett 16y ago
          Why is that hard to believe? We haven't kept it a secret that GitHub makes millions of dollars a year.