Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo

Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by xyzzyb on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:34PM (#4428608)

I find github compelling enough to pay them for private repos. $84 a year gets me five private repos. If you want to win me (and others like me) over you'll have to sell me an improved experience.

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by tzs on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:51PM (#4428705)

I sort of understand why people like Github for public projects, but what's compelling for a private project?

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by hzy on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:00PM (#4428752)

It's a single, unified place to host code with a known-to-be-good experience.

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by xyzzyb on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:08PM (#4428799)

hzy has it right on the money. It's rock solid and reliable. The built in issues/pull requests/wiki are fantastic. Adding in a collaborator is easy. It's credentials I already heavily use.

Plus, I like github tons so I'm happy to pay.

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by icefox on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:31PM (#4429787)

One of the most compelling feature of using GitHub for private repositories is developers already know how to use it, already have accounts etc. GitHub has a nice growing moat in that regard.

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by flog on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:29PM (#4428930)

I find issues and the wiki to be the weak points of github. Fix those.

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by subsection1h on Friday August 24, 2012 @06:48PM (#4430098)

    I find issues and the wiki to be the
    weak points of github.

What's wrong with GitHub's wikis?

I recently evaluated wiki software that I could use with one of the teams I'm on, and I was surprised when I ended up choosing GitHub's wikis. I love that their wikis support Org Mode's syntax. The only other solution I could find that supports Git and Org Mode's syntax is Gitit, which was my second choice.

I was fully prepared to use Markdown, Textile, or some other lightweight markup language that I consider inferior to Org Mode's syntax, but no wiki solution was good enough to warrant that compromise.

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Re:Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo by sytse on Friday August 24, 2012 @03:51PM (#4429318)

Thank you for the suggestion.

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