GitHub - ∞ Private Repositories for a LowEndFlatFee!

noaman

Well according to github I am still a student so they sent me this email...

Welcome to unlimited private repositories

Good news — your plan now includes unlimited private repositories. Whether you're using private repositories to learn new things or flex your creative muscles, you can keep all of your projects in one place without worrying about how many repositories you're using (if you need help migrating, we’ve got a tool for that). We hope this new plan will help you work on as many ideas, experiments, and projects as you can think up. 

We’ve automatically updated your account to include unlimited private repositories. As part of this change we also updated our pricing, but since you’re using the Student Developer Pack, your plan remains free. 

theroyalstudent

@spammy said:
Just got an idea, can we use this as an unlimited file storage space? I guess there is no restriction on what kind of file you can store in the git right?

Oh no you're gonna live up to your username again

cd ~/pornCollection
git init
git add . -f
git commit -as -m "whatever"
git remote add origin (bleh)
git push -u origin master -f

ATHK

@noaman said:
Well according to github I am still a student so they sent me this email...

> Welcome to unlimited private repositories
> 
> Good news — your plan now includes unlimited private repositories. Whether you're using private repositories to learn new things or flex your creative muscles, you can keep all of your projects in one place without worrying about how many repositories you're using (if you need help migrating, we’ve got a tool for that). We hope this new plan will help you work on as many ideas, experiments, and projects as you can think up. 
> 
> We’ve automatically updated your account to include unlimited private repositories. As part of this change we also updated our pricing, but since you’re using the Student Developer Pack, your plan remains free. 
> 

I also got this, it's a good day for students or people with accounts for that matter.

theroyalstudent

@ATHK said:

@noaman said:
Well according to github I am still a student so they sent me this email...

> > Welcome to unlimited private repositories
> > 
> > Good news — your plan now includes unlimited private repositories. Whether you're using private repositories to learn new things or flex your creative muscles, you can keep all of your projects in one place without worrying about how many repositories you're using (if you need help migrating, we’ve got a tool for that). We hope this new plan will help you work on as many ideas, experiments, and projects as you can think up. 
> > 
> > We’ve automatically updated your account to include unlimited private repositories. As part of this change we also updated our pricing, but since you’re using the Student Developer Pack, your plan remains free. 
> > 

I also got this, it's a good day for students or people with accounts for that matter.

Well, I heard from a few friends working a company that uses Github, they don't seem to be fond of the changes due to the spike in pricing for them.

They prefer the old plans.

Silvenga

I've tried all the self-hosted Git applications, Gogs, GitLab, Stash, and even just a bare repo. I've always liked GitHub's UI and now that it's extremely cheap now I'm starting to move my stuff.

Silvenga

EDIT: Duplicate.

ElliotJ

theroyalstudent said: Well, I heard from a few friends working a company that uses Github, they don't seem to be fond of the changes due to the spike in pricing for them.

Yeah, I mean I don't personally use GitHub but it seems like this is fantastic news for new users, but sucks for pre-existing (perhaps even dependent) users and companies.

Squrb made a post on it for reference.

I'm guessing their gameplan is to make switching from GitHub to another repo provider more daunting for future users - Once you hit 50 repos with the old plan, I'm guessing you'd at _least _consider the other options before making the leap. This linear per-user pricing model avoids that decision entirely.

vimalware

Imagine all the private keys being pushed to those private repos resulting from a false sense of security . #thinkLikeAnationState

theroyalstudent

"2 private UnrealEngine repos was $25 a month, now $815,913 per month (90657 users)… (via hacker news)"

lmao

zemigpt

@elgs said:
git init --bare my_project.git

This.