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Bitbucket has offered unlimited free private repositories for years, why should students go through the trouble of using github?

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THIS.

Bitbucket is free for personal use. Unlimited private repos. Edu accounts have unlimited collaborators... FOREVER.

and they're super responsive to support requests, support importing code from more sources, and support mercurial and git both.

Also the ticket trackers let you attach arbitrary files, not just those animated gifs :)

Also, BitBucket supports Mercurial, which is used by some major academic projects (for example, the Jikes Research Virtual Machine). I also personally prefer Metcurial, so having the choice is great.

Also, on windows Mercurial get a wonderful tool as to Tortoise, and it works well with Bitbucket...

mercurial (via tortoise, and even cmdline) is much easier to use for simple things (branches, merge, update) I think git has more bells and whistles, but a lot more painfull for novices to use

I have a student account on GitHub and I use BitBucket for private repositories with my employer. I prefer the GitHub website so much more. Better design, better graphs, you can get an overview of who in your team has committed in a time period (Pulse), better README, better commit history layout, more service hooks (no Trello support for BitBucket is annoying considering we use Trello for organizing and managing our projects), to mention a few.

TIL BitBucket is run by Atlassian (i.e. the JIRA people).

Links to save you time, if you're interested:

https://bitbucket.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket

For Open Source projects Github > * You just can't beat the tremendous community.

However when things need to be private... Atlassian suite > Github suite

JIRA is so much more powerful than Github issues/wiki. And it is significantly cheaper to boot.

But only 5 collaborators which isn't good when you have a class of 30-60!

Not true for academic licenses/accounts.

"These licences [academic] allow students and teachers to collaborate with an unlimited number of programmers"

[1]https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...

I see, that's pretty sweet

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