Comments on: ErkanaAuth Now Hosted on Bitbucket

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:04:02 +0000

@Phil
Don’t know why it took me so long to respond to your comment. Regardless, as you know, I was never on GitHub. My choice of BitBucket was purely based on “EllisLab is there and they give a free private repo.”

In the month since making the move – I am absolutely loving it, and even signed up for the $5 subscription so I could get 4 additional private repos.

By: Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:32:20 +0000

I’m glad to see you getting some of your code onto one of these social platforms Mike, good move.

Unlike a lot of the community I don’t see the point in madly rushing over to BitBucket from GitHub if you are already using one. I have been on GitHub so long that my projects have followers, loads of links, etc so moving would just screw things up.

Also, I like multiple remotes – it’s the main reason I picked Git. Plus the Git staging area is a massive winner as being able to pick specific files and even specific lines for a certain commit is amazingly useful.

Both systems seem great, but I’ll be sticking where I am for now.

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0000

The private repo on Bitbucket’s plan was the deciding factor between Mercurial over Git. Like you, I don’t know enough about either to make a real informed decision on which is better and why.

I think we both could just as easily have said, “I still don’t understand why anyone would choose Git over Mercurial.”

By: Eric Ryan Harrison

Eric Ryan Harrison — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:31:34 +0000

I still don’t understand why anyone would choose Mercurial over git. From an outside perspective, they seem like they do the exact same thing. I’m going to have to do some more in-depth research I guess.

With that said, I’m also saddened that bitbutcket offers a better “free” plan than GitHub. I don’t think one private repository is too much to ask GitHub.