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Andy Zhao (he/him)
Andy Zhao (he/him)

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GitHub Private Repos are Now Free

GitHub announced unlimited free private repos today.

You can add up to three collaborators to each private repo. There's also some other news related to the other pricing levels they have.

Personally the main reason I made a GitLab account was for the private repos. Think I'll stick with GitHub just because of familiarity. What are your thoughts?

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Vishnu Haridas

That's a nice move from MS. Now many side-projects will be moved to GitHub.

In my guess, the next move from GitLab will be improving usability of their integrated CI/CD tools which GitHub lacks currently.

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Gregor Gonzalez

Ohh that's really interesting. I like GitHub but I started to use gitlab because the private repos. I'll keep with gitlab since my projects are there from many years now.

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Saulo Vargas

I'm happy with keybase.io

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

That's interesting, do you mostly use it for private file storage? Does Keybase also have a VCS too?

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Saulo Vargas

I use it for both. And yes they provide a full encrypted and private VCS for free.

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Grohs Fabian

Really didn't think Microsoft would do such a move, really glad they did.

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Casey Brooks

I just went and downgraded my account 😂

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Abhijit • Edited

Moved all my private repos from Bitbucket to GitHub. Bitbucket's private repo/collaborator policy is plain weird. 5 collaborators across all private repos? Nope.

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Fernando B 🚀

I use bitbucket for private repos. Now I don't have to. Thanks Github.

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Jen Chan

Phew! wow

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George Nance

This is very big news. But it may be too late for me. I have moved my private repos to Gitlab and I have been loving it so far.

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Felicitas Pojtinger

And that was the right choice. GitLab is FLOSS & superior in every aspect except discoverability, and you can simply mirror to GitHub and be done with it.

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Pedro Piñera Buendía

I’d do the same. I gage GitLab a try exactly for the same reason but I’m so used to GitHub, that I find it hard to navigate around GitLab’s interface and concept. I’m so happy about this happening on GitHub 😋