Yeah. I like BitBucket as well. I'm just more of a Git guy right now, and all of my favorite projects and people are on GitHub.
It's got a social-network lock-in effect for me right now. I can't leave and go somewhere that has none of my friends. But boy, I love BitBucket's pricing. I wish I could get at least 1 private repo on GitHub without paying a monthly fee. It'd be nice to have a personal repo to store configuration files and such that contain passwords... :(
I really like Bitbucket. I never had issues and I love the fact that I have access to free private repositories. That alone is the killer feature. I like Github, but I am not that much of a social developer therefore all their social aspect to me is not that important and the fact that I need to keep my repositories open or pay is actually a downside when the competition does exactly the same thing without this problems.
Bitbucket is great. I use it for all my private projects since it offers a much more sensible price structure than github (for me at least — github's model is based on number of repositories while bitbucket's is based on number of users).
This is great. I continue to use bitbucket for all of my personal repos since they provide unlimited private repos for free. I would use github for my private repos but I have lot's of small repos that make private github cost prohibitive.
I'd just like to add that one thing I like that bitbucket offers over github is free private git repositories (if you don't mind being limited to 5 users). Not compelling for everyone, but it's nice to have the option.
I really like bitbucket. They don't have as many features, but free private repos, unlimited academic repos, means I'm not actually a GitHub user, except for the OSS projects that insist on GitHub.
That's the one thing keeping me off bitbucket is the fact that nobody else is there. Admittedly their pricing is better (especially wrt. private repos, something i'm still not ready to shell out cash for), but the interface seems to be a Github ripoff.
Github is quickly becoming the social network for coding - there's no reason to use an also-ran copycat who lacks the "social" part. (And this isn't to disparage Atlassian, they're one of my favorite companies!)
I stick with bitbucket mainly because of the pricing schemes. I create a lot of tiny private repos for company related work, sometimes just scripting type programs with only 5 files in it, and I can't afford to pay for each of those on github. Otherwise, github is just the best in the business in every aspect
Ditto for me. It is the unlimited free private repos that initially drew me to Bitbucket, however, I am now happily paying the $10 per month for multiple members of the team (7 of them) for the company account.
Using Github the way we would like (multiple repos) would put us in the $50 per month bracket, which seems excessive.
Bitbucket, for our use case, has the perfect price point.
Bitbucket provides free private repositories, which I really enjoy for personal projects. I never log into the site though, just a git server I don't have to manage myself.
I use GitHub, but I concede Bitbucket has cooler features (free private repos, password protected repos, etc). It can't beat GitHub's UI/UX and community though.
> But for my private projects GitHub is totally useless and also expensive, which is why I have been hosting my own Git repo on an instance that I own - it's pretty easy to setup too.
Ditto. There's a number of projects that I just won't put online because I'd rather lose than share them. With Bitbucket it looks like I'll be able to stash them privately, for free.
I'm totally psyched that Bitbucket has given this good a plan as their base/free package.
Personally all my own projects are on bitbucket. They were the first to provide free unlimited private repos and just has a great set of tools. So my personal preference is bitbucket over github.
I signed up for Bitbucket the instant they had git availability. I only started using Git regularly for new/small projects a month ago, after quite happily using svn for web projects.
Bitbucket gets what I need. I love the social coding of GitHub and will continue to participate in it. But I can't put my own projects there. There's too many small, private repos that I can't keep paying for.
Bitbucket's approach is good for me. I'd rather pay for storage/users than per repo. If Github is really about promoting source code control, it shouldn't be a barrier for private / personal projects. For now, bitbucket solves this. I hope Github comes around.
Until then, I'm cancelling my $7 github account and giving Bitbucket $10/month even though I'm only using 2 users. They're doing me a real service and favor.
Agreed about Bitbucket. I've used it for a long time and haven't found it to be substantively different from GitHub in either functionality or reliability. The major downside, as I see it, is that it's just not as popular.
It's got a social-network lock-in effect for me right now. I can't leave and go somewhere that has none of my friends. But boy, I love BitBucket's pricing. I wish I could get at least 1 private repo on GitHub without paying a monthly fee. It'd be nice to have a personal repo to store configuration files and such that contain passwords... :(
Oh well.
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