Overview

GitHub

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Followers259.0K

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Azure Repos

Stacks63

Followers92

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Azure Repos vs GitHub: What are the differences?

Introduction

Azure Repos and GitHub are both version control repositories that provide a platform for code hosting, collaboration, and release automation. While they have many similarities, there are several key differences between the two platforms.

Repositories: Azure Repos allows you to create and manage both Git and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repositories within Azure DevOps. On the other hand, GitHub is primarily focused on Git repositories and is known for its vast collection of open-source projects.
Integration with Azure DevOps: Azure Repos is tightly integrated with Azure DevOps, which provides a complete end-to-end DevOps solution for building, testing, and deploying applications. This integration allows for seamless collaboration between development teams and other Azure DevOps services like pipelines, boards, and test plans. In contrast, GitHub offers limited integration with Azure DevOps and is more commonly used as a standalone version control platform.
Licensing: Azure Repos is included as part of the Azure DevOps suite, which requires a subscription to access the full range of features. GitHub, on the other hand, offers free public repositories for open-source projects and provides paid plans for private repositories and additional features.
Enterprise Support: Azure Repos provides enterprise-grade support with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for issue resolution and uptime. It also offers features like access controls, branch policies, and granular permissions, making it suitable for organizations with strict security and compliance requirements. GitHub, while offering support options, does not provide SLAs or the same level of enterprise-focused features.
Community and Collaboration: GitHub has a large and active community of developers, making it an excellent platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Its social coding features, such as pull requests, forks, and issue tracking, facilitate open-source contributions and community-driven development. While Azure Repos does support collaboration features like pull requests, it may not have the same level of community engagement as GitHub.
Source Code Visibility: GitHub is known for its public repositories, where developers can easily discover and contribute to open-source projects. Azure Repos, by default, supports private repositories, making it suitable for projects that require confidentiality or restricted access. However, Azure Repos also allows for public repositories, although they may not have the same level of discoverability as GitHub.

In Summary, Azure Repos and GitHub differ in terms of repository options, integration with Azure DevOps, licensing, enterprise support, community engagement, and source code visibility.

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Advice on GitHub, Azure Repos

Anonymous

May 25, 2020

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Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

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Weverton

CTO at SourceLevel

Jul 28, 2020

Review

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

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Weverton

CTO at SourceLevel

Aug 3, 2020

Review

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

Pick the correct target branch
Make Drafts explicit
Name things properly
Ask help for tools
Remove the noise
Fetch necessary data
Understand Mergeability
Pass the message
Add screenshots
Be found in the future
Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Detailed Comparison

GitHub	Azure Repos
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.	It is a set of version control tools that you can use to manage your code. Get unlimited private Git repository hosting and support across all scales, from a single hobby project for TFVC to the world's largest repository.
Command instructions; Source browser; Git powered wikis; Integrated issue tracking; Code reviews with inline comments; Compare view; Newsfeed; Followers; Developer profiles; Autocompletion for @username mentions	Free private Git repositories, pull requests and code search; Support for all Git clients; Web hooks and API integration; Semantic code search
Statistics
Stacks 296.5K	Stacks 63
Followers 259.0K	Followers 92
Votes 10.3K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 1773 Open source friendly 1463 Easy source control 1254 Nice UI 1137 Great for team collaboration 868 Easy setup Cons 56 Owned by micrcosoft 38 Expensive for lone developers that want private repos 15 Relatively slow product/feature release cadence 10 API scoping could be better 9 Only 3 collaborators for private repos	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Grove Lighthouse Airbrake Codeship Bugsnag BugHerd Visual Studio Code HipChat CopperEgg Nitrous.IO	Azure Pipelines Git

What are some alternatives to GitHub, Azure Repos?

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

GitLab

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

RhodeCode

RhodeCode provides centralized control over distributed code repositories. Developers get code review tools and custom APIs that work in Mercurial, Git & SVN. Firms get unified security and user control so that their CTOs can sleep at night

AWS CodeCommit

CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

Gogs

The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. It published under the MIT license.

Upsource

Upsource summarizes recent changes in your repository, showing commit messages, authors, quick diffs, links to detailed diff views and associated code reviews. A commit graph helps visualize the history of commits, branches and merges in your repository.

Beanstalk

A single process to commit code, review with the team, and deploy the final result to your customers.

GitBucket

GitBucket provides a Github-like UI and features such as Git repository hosting via HTTP and SSH, repository viewer, issues, wiki and pull request.

BinTray

Bintray offers developers the fastest way to publish and consume OSS software releases. With Bintray's full self-service platform developers have full control over their published software and how it is distributed to the world.