One big factor for me has been also repo size , because I make games and as you can imagine I need a lot of space. Bit bucket has a limit of 2GB per repo while GitLab has a limit of 10GB, so for me GitLab is far better choice. On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 at 16:31, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:
bitbucket offers infinite private repos too, if you do not want to install a server by your own.
Esteban
On 20 Oct 2016, at 14:47, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been looking for an alternative to Github to host my private repos, Github provides only 1 private repo and for more you have to pay. So I found this.
Gitlab has all the features of Github with additional advantages that is completely free and you can have as many private repos as you want. Also in terms of space , its unlimited with a limit of 10 GB per repo which makes it an excellent choice for binary files. You can have unlimited repos (the hard limit is at 100.000 repos per user which you wont reach any time soon )
A recent advantage that I discovered is that like Github , Gitlab allows you to host your own website via Gitlab pages
The cool thing about this is that it comes with CI , which is highly configurable which means you can even make it work with Pillar. The website part can mix with existing code, meaning you can keep on the same repo the code of your pharo projects and documentation in form of website. Gitlab pages support a wide variety of static website generators , the on the interests me is gitbook
Gitbook is interesting because it comes with its own Editor you can download as a native client that handles the writing of the book / documentation and pushing and committing to the repo
https://www.gitbook.com/editor
Both Gitlab and Gitbook are free software that means they can be installed in any Pharo server and customised to whatever you want
I made an example here. https://gitlab.com/Kilon/testbook
The gitbook documentation is hosted in the pages branch which is a nice clean way to isolate documentation from project's code but also you could alternative have everything in master and put documentation in a doc folder. You can fine tune such setup with the corresponding yaml setup file as can see here
https://gitlab.com/Kilon/testbook/blob/pages/.gitlab-ci.yml
The website generated by this repo can be viewed here
https://kilon.gitlab.io/testbook/
obviously you can also add anything that is in HTML/JS which make this ideal for blog, main websites, application frontends and pretty much everything you can imagine and because GitLab allows for unlimited amount of repos you can have unlimited amount of websites.
Have fun :)