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Sorry to say, but any time I need a private repo I just head to BitBucket. GitHub provides tremendous value, I hope they find a good way to capture some of it.
by aakilfernandes 11y ago
Sorry to say, but any time I need a private repo I just head to BitBucket. GitHub provides tremendous value, I hope they find a good way to capture some of it.
- tswartz 11y agoWhen you need a private repo why do you use BitBucket? I've used the private repos on GitHub and found them to work just fine, but I'm new to coding...
- servercobra 11y agoBitBucket private repos are free, GitHub's are not.
- tswartz 11y agoahh.. that makes sense then. :)
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- andrewchambers 11y agoBit bucket is free. This is coming from someone who currently pays for a private github account.
- jamesharding 11y agoBitBucket is free for private repos, GitHub is not (unless you have a student promotion active).
- gabeio 11y agoBitbucket is free for private repos if there are <=5 contributors (unless you have a .edu email = unlimited free).
- gjtorikian 11y agoGitHub also provides free private accounts to .edu addresses: https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new (And non-profits: https://github.com/nonprofit https://github.com/nonprofit)
- bskap 11y agoBitBucket is free for private repos with less than five people. Doesn't work for a lot of businesses, which is where most of the money is.
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- kristiandupont 11y ago..but if they didn't charge what does it matter that it's where the money is?
- veddermatic 11y agoBecause when your team gets to 6 people, you A) have money (hopefully) and B) your code is already in BitBucket, so choosing to pay them over GitHub is a no brainer.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoReally? I trust a private repo I am paying for to be there in a few years. Perhaps I am still of the "buying a cd" generation but someone somewhere has to pay for a saas service. It's just more real this way.
- djacobs 11y agoTrue, a paid service is probably more likely to be around in a few years (in general), but does that matter for distributed source control? I guess if you depend on non-git features, like issues, there's a chance that there's some lock-in. However, most of the ones I use have a migration strategy [0]. [0] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/49729/how-can-i-import-issues-from-bitbucket-to-github http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/49729/how-can-i-i...
- TillE 11y agoThe beauty of DVCS is that it really doesn't matter if your "main" repository suddenly vanishes. As long as you've got it checked out locally, just push it somewhere else.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoThe main point is that I have to pay someone - otherwise hosting and indeed it seems every web service out there is running on the Greater Fool Theory.
- gabesullice 11y agoI get that when it's just a personal project, but the Github workflow is also very nice to have. When I want a buddy to access my private repo, I just add his/her GitHub user name, I don't need to have them create a BitBucket account. I don't need to figure out how issues and PRs work with BitBucket, etc. It's the network effects and UI that I'm paying for - one UI private or public. Plus, it supports a service I value very much. On a more important note, you're probably not GitHub's target market. It's more like agencies and in-house dev teams.
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- gelatocar 11y agoMy agency is considering switching to bitbucket from github because bitbucket's pricing per team member would cost us 10 times less than github's pricing per repository.
- derwiki 11y agoYou probably won't notice a difference. Bitbucket acts enough like Github that you won't hiccup.
- purephase 11y agoThat's the reason we use it. I love GH and use it personally, but the pricing for companies with a lot of private repos (like agencies) is not ideal. We save a considerable amount of money using BB over GH. BB is pretty great though, so aside from the social factor, the functionality is pretty much the same.
- jlarocco 11y ago> On a more important note, you're probably not GitHub's target market. It's more like agencies and in-house dev teams. That's technically true, but ignores the fact that the target market is only paying GitHub because it's popular among developers. If GitHub upsets enough developers, they'll switch to something else for their personal projects, and start recommending other things at work. The type of companies that use GitHub are also the type of companies that listen to their developers about things like what source control to use.
- bvrlt 11y agoRepository hosting seem to be a market where multiple companies can strive. Both GitHub and Bitbucket can capture more value.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoSorry to say, but any time I need a private repo I just head to BitBucket. By which you further validate the market for them and for investors.
- thedufer 11y agoSaying that a product isn't worth $5/month (and acting on it) sounds like the opposite of market validation to me.
- rch 11y agoI'd need to do some searching to dig up the reference, but I'm pretty sure GH has been making money since launch.
- dorkrawk 11y agoSo, when you're looking to not pay for something to head to a BitBucket, but if someone else is footing the bill (like a company with a real budget for more than $7/month) you'd prefer GitHub? Sounds like a win-win for GitHub.
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