Github: Free micro plan for a month

Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by corey on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:10PM (#1959342)

I'm new to DVCS, and I recently setup a Bitbucket account which offers free unlimited space and repositories. Github does seem to be far more popular, though. What makes Github better and worth paying for?

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by mnutt on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:29PM (#1959430)

I haven't used bitbucket much, but things like the Compare view make Github really nice:

https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v3.0.2...3-0-stable

Github Pages are really useful. Maintaining a project site is really easy when you can just create a gh-pages branch and push to it to update your site.

Also, network effects are undeniably part of the appeal. I'm much more likely to hack on a project or library if I can fork it on Github. It makes for a nice workflow.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:58PM (#1959843)

I don't know anything about the guys behind Bitbucket. I have used a ton of software (not to mention config files!) that GitHub puts out as open source. So I support them.

Oh, and the interface is gorgeous, BitBucket's feels really tacky. There aren't many outages, and an outage has yet to actually affect me.

Just really happy with GitHub in general.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by jrockway on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:16PM (#1959922)

GitHub is popular for the free open-source hosting, which offers limitless free repositories. The only catch is that anyone can view them.

When you pay GitHub money, then you get non-public repositories.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by storborg on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:56PM (#1959837)

It's more a matter of git vs. mercurial than Github vs. Bitbucket.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by kneath on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:18PM (#1959935)

Hm, I guess I disagree — http://hg-git.github.com We have a ton of mercurial users on GitHub using hg every day.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by storborg on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:23PM (#1959956)

Sure, I totally agree. But going the other way is much less practical/pleasant. hg-git is one of the things Github has going for it.

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