Code hosting

spupy · 2010-03-08 01:42:00

Anyone using code/project hosting websites such as sourceforge, google code, github, etc?

Up until now I put all my code in an SVN repo on my own server, but decided to try something else. So I started this little project, hosting it on github. (Another reason was to learn to work with git.)

Just want to know what are your experiences with such websites? I'm particularly looking for comparison between github and google code. One of the main appeals of google code is that more people have google accounts than github accounts, so easier to contribute (bugs, requests,...). Google code also has the Google Simplicity ™ thing going on with its interface.

Thoughts?

Mr.Elendig · 2010-03-08 18:48:33

I've mostly used repo.or.cz and github. Both works nicely. Personally I don't care much for the google code ui.

jasonwryan · 2010-03-08 18:54:26

There was a discussion on the suckless list a couple of weeks ago about mercurial (and how it compares to git): http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1002/3232.html

Themaister · 2010-03-08 19:35:45

I really like git, even though I only use the very basic functions of it. I use GitHub for hosting

Gigamo · 2010-03-08 22:18:34

http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ is interesting, although maybe slightly biased.

jshield · 2010-03-09 05:31:32

Gigamo wrote:

http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ is interesting, although maybe slightly biased.

You say that like it is a bad thing

upsidaisium · 2010-03-09 05:44:55

though my experience is limited, i prefer mercurial [so far]. you can make an account at bitbucket.org if you want to try using mercurial.

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CalcAndCoffee · 2010-03-09 07:58:46

I learned with Git and then converted to Mercurial because I prefer the interface (and, seriously, 'hg' is the best command of any of them to type), so I second the vote for it as a DVCS.

Accordingly, I use BitBucket, which is (more or less) to Mercurial as GitHub is to Git. I think the "social coding" idea is a really cool one, so that makes it much more appealing than Google Code (which, for what it's worth, also supports Mercurial).

To put it vaguely, I'd say that the important difference is that the GitHub/BitBucket approach is about "sharing code", while Google Code is about "hosting a project". Not that there's anything wrong with hosting a project, but I'd rather share my code than just host it. (Perhaps a better comparison is that the social sites center on users rather than projects.)

Another selling point for GitHub and BitBucket is that they allow you to create an unlimited number of projects. With Google Code, there's a limit on the projects you can create -- and it's not a high one, either: I recall it being somewhere between 3 and 10 the last time I looked. If you just wrote some cool little thing and think it might be useful to someone else, it's much less intimidating to throw it up on GitHub than to create a project for it on Google Code.

As for Google making it easier for others to contribute than GitHub, it depends on the sort of contribution. I think GitHub makes contributing code undeniably much easier. I'd rather navigate GitHub's issue tracking interface than Google's, as well. (That doesn't refute the point that there are more Googlers than GitHubbers, sure, but as someone who is both, I can say that I'd be much more likely to contribute to a project on GitHub.)

lordmetroid · 2010-03-09 13:40:22

I love GIT and I use github as well as my own servers.

praavDa · 2010-03-10 06:53:59

My situation will be a little off topic, but.. I am a rather lone, hobby developer - I am not using any of the mentioned hosting sites, but I keep my code as a mercurial repo on a dropbox shared folder.

It lacks most of the advanced features, but in my case (few computers, one developer) it works like a charm.

jwcxz · 2010-03-10 13:24:08

jasonwryan wrote:

There was a discussion on the suckless list a couple of weeks ago about mercurial (and how it compares to git): http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1002/3232.html

Yeah, it looked like that panned out quite nicely.

Another thing that is mindbogglingly stupid is arguing on the internet
about revision control systems or programming languages.

matio · 2010-03-14 09:01:33

I am surprised no one has mentioned launchpad

JezdziecBezNicka · 2010-03-14 09:41:45

Imho Gitorious. GitHub uses user/project structure, while Gitorious uses project/repo/user (which makes more sense in the open-source world).

cactus · 2010-03-15 06:04:34

matio wrote:

I am surprised no one has mentioned launchpad

I'm not, it blows goats across the room.

Stythys · 2010-03-15 14:28:52

http://codaset.com

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