Re: [tlug] GitHub Private Repos Are Now Free

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Curt,


On 22/2/2019 8:49 PM, Curt Sampson wrote:
> I just noticed that, since the start of this year, GitHub now allows
> users on free accounts to create private repos. (There's no limit on
> the number.) The main restriction here now as compared to paid
> accounts is that you can add no more than three collaborators to a
> private repo.
>
> I think that this is a brilliant move because it makes it a whole heck
> of a lot easier, when you want to chuck together a small experiment or
> whatever to share with a partner or two, to quickly pop up a shared
> repo for it without having to worry about whether you really want to


This is pretty cool!  Thanks for letting us know!  Actually, 
because of the lack of private repositories, I moved some of 
my work over to Bitbucket.  I'm not sure I'm ready to move 
them back, though.  I'm generally happy with it, but it's 
good to know that option now exists.


> make the contents public. If you keep in mind that Git is great not
> just for code but for a documentation dump, meeting notes and agendas,
> and many other things (with GitHub doing a nice rendering of your
> Markdown documents), my enthusiasm might make more sense.


All very true!  For those of you with access to a 
Linux-based server via ssh, gitolite3 is another 
alternative.  You don't get any rendering of Markdown 
documents, but you get the power of git all within your own 
server.  As Kalin alludes to, you don't need to worry about 
whether your repository is indexed in this case.  (Which I 
haven't checked whether Bitbucket is indexed or not.)

Ray