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Comment by cgbystrom | Hacker News Reader

In comparison, how many hosted repositories do BitBucket have?

Tried Google with no luck.

http://bitbucket.org/repo/all/popular/2008/ is the last page of repos. At 15 items per page, that would give ~30120 repositories.

But you have to take into account that on BitBucket you get one private repository for free, so I guess there's loads more of them than on GitHub. Also, I'm not sure if all repositories are on that list or not - they don't seem to filter it, since there are some repos 0bytes big at the end.

Just found a way to do a similar thing on github: http://github.com/repositories/recent?page=8433 is the last page of repositories with 30 items per page - that gives ~252990 repositories. Not even close to the number cited in the article... I'd really like to know where does the difference come from.

That only gives you public repos. For one, they said that 40% of that 1M is gists (which would make it ~400k, which is more than the number of public repos. Which I guess makes sense since there are probably people that create a new gist almost every single day.) Also, there are lots of private repos that won't show up on the repo-browsing page.

It's true that there are private repos, but with ~600k project repos and 252k public... I find it hard to believe that the rest are private.

If they had ~350k private repos, they'd get between 385k$ and 490k$ per month - I assume that would be big news mentioned somewhere already...

Why is that hard to believe? We haven't kept it a secret that GitHub makes millions of dollars a year.

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