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I've actually found bitbucket slowly becoming a good competitor to github. From a sales point of view, bitbucket's offering of 5 free private repos might actua
by makeramen 16y ago
I've actually found bitbucket slowly becoming a good competitor to github.
From a sales point of view, bitbucket's offering of 5 free private repos might actually help them attract more developers who are making proprietary apps and making money, and then more willing to pay for more repos in the future. I personally have quite a few repos there partly because I don't want the publicity of github (and partly because hg was quicker to learn than git :P). I also know a friend who switched to bitbucket simply due to the private repo offerings.
For open source though, github is probably the way to go.
This is all just anecdotal though, I'd love to hear some solid evidence if anyone has some.
- jckarter 16y agoIn my experience, bitbucket has been extremely unreliable and creaky compared to github. I see frequent random unscheduled outages where the ssh connection won't connect, ssh won't authenticate, or hg won't respond from the other side. The web interface also caches a lot of stuff too long; I've seen it take a few minutes for its idea of "tip" to refresh after pushing new patches, and stripped revisions linger in the log view for similar amounts of time. Hopefully now that Atlassian's bought them the service quality will improve over time.
- tonfa 16y ago> Hopefully now that Atlassian's bought them the service quality will improve over time. Given the growth of the the bitbucket team thanks to atlassian, I do think it will improve quickly. (I'm not even sure there was more than one full time person working on BB before)
- wkornewald 16y agoNote that it's not 5 free private repos, but 5 private users. You can have unlimited private repos. So, in a small team you'd probably never have to pay. I wonder what has led them to this decision business-wise. Was the competition from github so overwhelming that they decided to counter it with with relatively drastic measures (giving up lots of $$$)?
- simonsarris 16y agoWell bitbucket won me over and made me start an account with them when it happened. And now that I'm with them, if I go over 5 users I'll gladly pay. It certainly can't hurt to be the first site to do it. (first considering github, bitbucket, google code, codeplex, sourceforge(?))
- follower 16y agoNote that BitBucket was recently acquired by Atlassian: http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/bitbucket/faq.jsp http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/bitbucket/faq.jsp I think this had an effect on the offers.
- ItarPeyo 16y agoYes it did. The changes in pricing took effect at the moment they got acquired.
- makeramen 16y agoah yeah, I may be wrong, but I swear it started as 5 repos, then they changed it to users. Anyway, for some reason one of my free accounts has unlimited users right now. Not sure how that happened but I think it might be because I had more than 5 users on a repo before they made the upgrade? Pretty awesome regardless.
- Sapient 16y agoThis is precisely what happened to me, and the reason I ditched git for Hg in my most recent project. I am not doing anything large enough to warrant paying for a GitHub account at the moment, and its not because I am cheap - its because I am a poor South African, and $7 a month is infinitely more expensive than $0 a month.
- RK 16y agoWith bitbucket's new offer, I just signed up to work on academic papers (LaTeX) with a couple collaborators using private repos.