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Code Repository Atlassian Buys Competitor BitBucket

Posted by kdawson on from the lazy-shrug dept.

Roblimo writes "Wow. Atlassian sent press releases out about this, and we're happy for them. But isn't Git easy to install and use — for free, even if your project is proprietary and secret, not open source and public? Whatever. Some people seem to feel better about proprietary software than about FOSS, and the majority of Atlassian's business comes from meeting the needs of behind-the-firewall, proprietary code repositories. At least Atlassian has free versions of its repository for FOSS and small-scale proprietary developers. Which is sort of nice."

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  1. Code Repository? by nacturation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Atlassian is a corporation, not a code repository.

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  2. Why does the fact Git is free matter here? by Omnifarious · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mercurial is just as free, and just as easy to set up. Code hosting repositories are about someone else managing your connectivity, storage and backups for you, not about them building DVCS software for you.

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  3. Don't forget github.com by Ouija · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are remiss in not mentioning github.com which does the favor of free, immediate online hosting of OSS projects and content under git. I don't know how many presenters I've seen with their slides and demo code all on github. It's the killer app that makes git really rock.

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  4. Re:Git by Omnifarious · · Score: 2, Informative

    You should give Mercurial a try. The thing that got me to use it in 2005, when it was pre-1.0, was how clean and obvious the command line interface was. I don't generally use graphical tools for development work, so I can't gauge the various GUIs available for it, but I do know that a lot of people like TortoiseHG.

    I've used Perforce as well, and it has its strange quirks and complexities too, though I agree that git's command line interface leaves a great deal to be desired in comparison. I think Mercurial's command line interface is more intuitive and clearer than Perforce's.

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  5. Re:Oh yeah, I had to google them by Courageous · · Score: 2, Informative

    Their wiki is pleasant to use and a snap to manage. All of their products are quite affordable to any corporation. Typically something like $8K will get you an unlimited user edition. Sometimes less, depends on which product.

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