GitHub vs Google Cloud Source Repositories

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GitHub vs Google Cloud Source Repositories: What are the differences?

Introduction

This Markdown code provides a comparison between GitHub and Google Cloud Source Repositories to highlight their key differences.

  1. Integration with Other Services: GitHub offers seamless integration with a wide range of third-party development tools and services, making it easier for developers to leverage different services within their workflows. On the other hand, Google Cloud Source Repositories are tightly integrated with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, enabling developers to easily connect repositories with other GCP tools like Cloud Build and Stackdriver.

  2. Pricing: GitHub offers free public repositories, allowing developers to host and collaborate on open-source projects without any cost. However, private repositories and additional features come with a price. Google Cloud Source Repositories, in contrast, provide free unlimited private repositories for up to five users, making it a cost-effective option for small development teams. Additional charges apply for larger teams.

  3. Access Control and Authentication: GitHub enables granular access control by allowing organizations to manage and assign repository-level permissions to individual users and teams. It also provides features like two-factor authentication (2FA) for enhanced security. Google Cloud Source Repositories integrate with Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), offering fine-grained access control at the project level. User roles and permissions can be managed through IAM policies.

  4. Continuous Integration and Deployment: GitHub provides built-in CI/CD capabilities with GitHub Actions, allowing developers to automate software workflows easily. Developers can define custom workflows or use pre-existing actions from the GitHub Marketplace. Google Cloud Source Repositories integrate with Cloud Build, Google's CI/CD platform, making it easy to trigger builds and deployments based on repository changes.

  5. Large File Storage: GitHub limits the file size for repositories, making it less suitable for managing large datasets or multimedia assets. Google Cloud Source Repositories have a much higher file size limit, accommodating larger files and making it a better choice for projects requiring storage of large binaries or media files.

  6. Backup and Disaster Recovery: GitHub automatically replicates repositories across multiple geographic regions, ensuring durability and availability. Additionally, it provides a variety of backup and restore options. Google Cloud Source Repositories leverage Google Cloud Storage's built-in replication and data redundancy features, providing robust backup and disaster recovery capabilities.

In summary, GitHub and Google Cloud Source Repositories differ in terms of integration with other services, pricing models, access control and authentication methods, CI/CD capabilities, file storage limits, and backup/restore mechanisms.

Decisions about GitHub and Google Cloud Source Repositories
Weverton Timoteo

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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Weverton Timoteo

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 Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 8 upvotes · 650.3K views

Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

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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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Nazar Atamaniuk
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At DeployPlace we use self-hosted GitLab, we have chosen GitLab as most of us are familiar with it. We are happy with all features GitLab provides, I can’t imagine our life without integrated GitLab CI. Another important feature for us is integrated code review tool, we use it every day, we use merge requests, code reviews, branching. To be honest, most of us have GitHub accounts as well, we like to contribute in open source, and we want to be a part of the tech community, but lack of solutions from GitHub in the area of CI doesn’t let us chose it for our projects.

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Pros of GitHub
Pros of Google Cloud Source Repositories
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    Open source friendly
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    Easy source control
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    Nice UI
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    Great for team collaboration
  • 867
    Easy setup
  • 504
    Issue tracker
  • 486
    Great community
  • 482
    Remote team collaboration
  • 451
    Great way to share
  • 442
    Pull request and features planning
  • 147
    Just works
  • 132
    Integrated in many tools
  • 121
    Free Public Repos
  • 116
    Github Gists
  • 112
    Github pages
  • 83
    Easy to find repos
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    It's free
  • 60
    Easy to find projects
  • 56
    Network effect
  • 49
    Extensive API
  • 43
    Organizations
  • 42
    Branching
  • 34
    Developer Profiles
  • 32
    Git Powered Wikis
  • 30
    Great for collaboration
  • 24
    It's fun
  • 23
    Clean interface and good integrations
  • 22
    Community SDK involvement
  • 20
    Learn from others source code
  • 16
    Because: Git
  • 14
    It integrates directly with Azure
  • 10
    Newsfeed
  • 10
    Standard in Open Source collab
  • 8
    Fast
  • 8
    It integrates directly with Hipchat
  • 8
    Beautiful user experience
  • 7
    Easy to discover new code libraries
  • 6
    Smooth integration
  • 6
    Cloud SCM
  • 6
    Nice API
  • 6
    Graphs
  • 6
    Integrations
  • 6
    It's awesome
  • 5
    Quick Onboarding
  • 5
    Remarkable uptime
  • 5
    CI Integration
  • 5
    Hands down best online Git service available
  • 5
    Reliable
  • 4
    Free HTML hosting
  • 4
    Version Control
  • 4
    Simple but powerful
  • 4
    Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
  • 4
    Security options
  • 4
    Loved by developers
  • 4
    Uses GIT
  • 4
    Easy to use and collaborate with others
  • 3
    IAM
  • 3
    Nice to use
  • 3
    Ci
  • 3
    Easy deployment via SSH
  • 2
    Good tools support
  • 2
    Leads the copycats
  • 2
    Free private repos
  • 2
    Free HTML hostings
  • 2
    Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
  • 2
    Beautiful
  • 2
    Never dethroned
  • 2
    IAM integration
  • 2
    Very Easy to Use
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    All in one development service
  • 2
    Self Hosted
  • 2
    Issues tracker
  • 2
    Easy source control and everything is backed up
  • 1
    Profound
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    Cons of GitHub
    Cons of Google Cloud Source Repositories
    • 53
      Owned by micrcosoft
    • 37
      Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
    • 15
      Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
    • 10
      API scoping could be better
    • 8
      Only 3 collaborators for private repos
    • 3
      Limited featureset for issue management
    • 2
      GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
    • 2
      Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
    • 1
      No multilingual interface
    • 1
      Takes a long time to commit
    • 1
      Expensive
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      What is GitHub?

      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.

      What is Google Cloud Source Repositories?

      Collaborate easily and securely manage your code on a fully featured, scalable, private Git repository. Extend your Git workflow by connecting to other GCP tools, including Cloud Build, App Engine, Stackdriver, and Cloud Pub/Sub. Get access to fast, indexed powerful code search across all your owned repositories to save time.

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