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GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.

46 points by luccastera 19y ago

cstejerean 19y ago
this is great news. I love GitHub and the invitation only plan restricted my ability to collaborate with others (as I could only invite 3 people).
zapnap 19y ago
Very cool. Good pricing, and ToS aren't hidden/braindead like so many other (private) repository hosting services.
- revolvingcur 19y ago
  Doesn't the pricing seem a bit too granular, though? I suspect the pricing categories will collapse into 3, maybe 4, levels eventually.
  - jmatt 19y ago
    The plan pricing works perfectly for me. I'm currently a micro and likely to move to small in the near future. It's nice that it'll only be a 5 dollar increase a month versus a 15 dollar increase to Medium.
Tichy 19y ago
I still don't exactly understand what they are offering? Is there an advantage to using GitHub versus dumping some (yet to be created) virtual machine image on a cheap virtual server? I thouhgt it has a social network aspect, but I can't see it yet? I really don't want to trash their business, just wondering about the virtual server competition.
- pius 19y ago
  The social networking aspect comes from the ease with which you can fork repositories and send pull requests. It makes it really easy to see what projects people are hacking and it bolsters the sense of community (and easy of code sharing) amongst folks working on the same open source projects.
  - davidw 19y ago
    I too am ignorant of things 'git'. Doesn't the "ease with which you can fork repositories" come from git itself?
    - pius 19y ago
      Oh, definitely. But the GitHub guys put a really nice UI on it. It's one of those things that is easy to underestimate until you've actually used it for actively developing an open source project. I've actually met other developers through it, so I guess the proof's in the pudding.
- Hates_ 19y ago
  http://tomayko.com/writings/github-is-myspace-for-hackers http://tomayko.com/writings/github-is-myspace-for-hackers
- jkkramer 19y ago
  You don't need to deal with setting up proper security, which can be a little tricky with git. Plus the social aspects. Plus the pretty interface. Plus it's free for most purposes. I don't use it for work, but I use it for personal projects.
  - tx 19y ago
    Don't you think that git's advantage over SVN evaporates when there is only one user on a team? I run my private Subversion repository which I use for everything (not just code), I looked at git, and while I see the benefits for large teams, I simply couldn't justify the switch. I guess I am asking for a small lecture :)
    - bayareaguy 19y ago
      I have a lot of scripts that sit on top of svn which I'm thinking of moving over to git. Even in the case of a single private repository git offers some advantages. Git seems a lot faster compared to svn, especially when checking out a large tree. svn co can be glacial at times. Also with git you don't have .svn directories all over the place. This may not seem like a big deal until you want to store a directory structure created by an application that wants total control over the directories it creates.
    - cstejerean 19y ago
      git is great even if you're developing by yourself. I use git exclusively for all my work now (and use git-svn to integrate with others at work that use svn). Some of the benefits are: merge tracking: this will also come to subversion in the future (but you'll have to migrate your repository) having the entire repository checked out locally for offline use (being able to code on the train on the way to work is great) fast branches - branches are really fast, especially since they're done locally, and there's basically no excuse for not quickly creating a branch when you want to try something out, and merge tracking forking other open source repositories (including svn and cvs ones) for hacking and maintaing patches (until they get accepted upstream). git is nice and will attempt to always rebase your patches off the latest HEAD (and let you resolve conflicts if they occur). git bisect for binary searching for the revision that broke something (can do a binary search over revisions to find out which revision broke a certain test). did I mention that it integrates with svn? git svn clone http://svnrepo.com/trunk http://svnrepo.com/trunk # do stuff git add stuff/you/changed git commit git svn dcommit # commit changes from git into subversion I could go on...
meat-eater 19y ago
Just tried it. Very nice and very easy to use. Has some really pretty graphs of your commits as well :) . Their free plan is really good for open source projects.
rsanheim 19y ago
new features with launch: - network visualization on repos and all their forks (seriously cool): http://github.com/mojombo/god/network http://github.com/mojombo/god/network - comments on commits: http://github.com/defunkt/facebox/commit/554c03c2e432340293afd56d56cb26a80f3e336b http://github.com/defunkt/facebox/commit/554c03c2e432340293a... - campfire and lighthouse integration Github: I'm lovin it.

46 points by luccastera 19y ago

this is great news. I love GitHub and the invitation only plan restricted my ability to collaborate with others (as I could only invite 3 people).

zapnap 19y ago

Very cool. Good pricing, and ToS aren't hidden/braindead like so many other (private) repository hosting services.

revolvingcur 19y ago
Doesn't the pricing seem a bit too granular, though? I suspect the pricing categories will collapse into 3, maybe 4, levels eventually.
- jmatt 19y ago
  The plan pricing works perfectly for me. I'm currently a micro and likely to move to small in the near future. It's nice that it'll only be a 5 dollar increase a month versus a 15 dollar increase to Medium.

Tichy 19y ago

I still don't exactly understand what they are offering? Is there an advantage to using GitHub versus dumping some (yet to be created) virtual machine image on a cheap virtual server? I thouhgt it has a social network aspect, but I can't see it yet? I really don't want to trash their business, just wondering about the virtual server competition.

pius 19y ago
The social networking aspect comes from the ease with which you can fork repositories and send pull requests. It makes it really easy to see what projects people are hacking and it bolsters the sense of community (and easy of code sharing) amongst folks working on the same open source projects.
- davidw 19y ago
  I too am ignorant of things 'git'. Doesn't the "ease with which you can fork repositories" come from git itself?
  - pius 19y ago
    Oh, definitely. But the GitHub guys put a really nice UI on it. It's one of those things that is easy to underestimate until you've actually used it for actively developing an open source project. I've actually met other developers through it, so I guess the proof's in the pudding.
Hates_ 19y ago
http://tomayko.com/writings/github-is-myspace-for-hackers http://tomayko.com/writings/github-is-myspace-for-hackers
jkkramer 19y ago
You don't need to deal with setting up proper security, which can be a little tricky with git. Plus the social aspects. Plus the pretty interface. Plus it's free for most purposes. I don't use it for work, but I use it for personal projects.
- tx 19y ago
  Don't you think that git's advantage over SVN evaporates when there is only one user on a team? I run my private Subversion repository which I use for everything (not just code), I looked at git, and while I see the benefits for large teams, I simply couldn't justify the switch. I guess I am asking for a small lecture :)
  - bayareaguy 19y ago
    I have a lot of scripts that sit on top of svn which I'm thinking of moving over to git. Even in the case of a single private repository git offers some advantages. Git seems a lot faster compared to svn, especially when checking out a large tree. svn co can be glacial at times. Also with git you don't have .svn directories all over the place. This may not seem like a big deal until you want to store a directory structure created by an application that wants total control over the directories it creates.
  - cstejerean 19y ago
    git is great even if you're developing by yourself. I use git exclusively for all my work now (and use git-svn to integrate with others at work that use svn). Some of the benefits are: merge tracking: this will also come to subversion in the future (but you'll have to migrate your repository) having the entire repository checked out locally for offline use (being able to code on the train on the way to work is great) fast branches - branches are really fast, especially since they're done locally, and there's basically no excuse for not quickly creating a branch when you want to try something out, and merge tracking forking other open source repositories (including svn and cvs ones) for hacking and maintaing patches (until they get accepted upstream). git is nice and will attempt to always rebase your patches off the latest HEAD (and let you resolve conflicts if they occur). git bisect for binary searching for the revision that broke something (can do a binary search over revisions to find out which revision broke a certain test). did I mention that it integrates with svn? git svn clone http://svnrepo.com/trunk http://svnrepo.com/trunk # do stuff git add stuff/you/changed git commit git svn dcommit # commit changes from git into subversion I could go on...

meat-eater 19y ago

Just tried it. Very nice and very easy to use. Has some really pretty graphs of your commits as well :) . Their free plan is really good for open source projects.

rsanheim 19y ago

new features with launch: - network visualization on repos and all their forks (seriously cool): http://github.com/mojombo/god/network http://github.com/mojombo/god/network - comments on commits: http://github.com/defunkt/facebox/commit/554c03c2e432340293afd56d56cb26a80f3e336b http://github.com/defunkt/facebox/commit/554c03c2e432340293a... - campfire and lighthouse integration Github: I'm lovin it.