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The BitBucket student discount and offer is much greater than the Micro discount (unlimited private repositories and collaborators). It would be a better idea t
by crazysim 12y ago
The BitBucket student discount and offer is much greater than the Micro discount (unlimited private repositories and collaborators). It would be a better idea to use BitBucket for private stuff instead and keep the public facing stuff in GitHub. Best of both worlds.
- Kudos 12y agoBitBucket is lacking the overall ecosystem.
- ephemeralgomi 12y agoWhat parts of the overall ecosystem do you consider a necessity for private repos?
- Pxl_Buzzard 12y agoI like starting a school-related project as a private Github repo, then as time or permission allows for to open it up as a public repo. I've open-sourced a few things this way, whereas the couple Bitbucket repos have been left to languish since I don't have a limit on private repos or the ecosystem to share it with.
- Shank 12y agoYou can always push your private BitBucket repos to public Github ones -- just add another remote and push there.
- LeonidasXIV 12y agoThough you will have to leave your issues/wiki at BitBucket. Usually not a problem as you don't have one but still annoying.
- piokuc 12y agoIt is very easy to import a private BitBucket repo and make it public on GitHub.
- ephemeralgomi 12y agoI'm sure you know, but you can just clone from bitbucket, then push it to github. You keep all your history and everything. I can dig that there's friction, though.
- Pxl_Buzzard 12y agoSince I've had 3 replies I'd like to clarify a bit. - Github has a large enough network effect that I can ask for another student's Github account and expect that they will have one. That lowers the friction to getting a new project started. - I have moved a repo from BitBucket to Github, it is about as easy as the comments state. - That said, I haven't needed more than 5 private repos at once, and the ability to visit one site (and one interface) to view all my work is easier than visiting two sites.
- Igglyboo 12y agoHonest question, what do you need other than a server to host your repo?
- Kudos 12y agoAre you oblivious to the amount of open source work that happens on Github?
- crazysim 12y agoTime and expertise to manage that server. It's cool that there's a Golang server out there that's a one binary solution to this among other offerings but some expertise and time is still required. I would rather a student learn how to use git and the communities and tools around it first if both of these were options.
- Jach 12y agoLike the parent comment I recently got my two-year expiration notice, but I've now graduated. (Although my edu email still works...) At the start of 2010 I did the BitBucket deal and did all my school stuff exclusively with them, until finally GitHub offered their version. (I like GitHub's interface better. Even after they did a big overhaul to a design I liked less.) Unlike GitHub though my BitBucket account is still Unlimited, which is awesome. Consequentially I like Atlassian as a company much more. :)