GitHub now offers unlimited free private repos

Two reasons I use gitlab. 1) Private repos, 2) supporting an open source alternative to Big Git(hub).

This is an amazing move but reason #2 is too important for me ideologically.

The problem I think GitHub has is that is has too many proprietary extensions onto the Git format that don’t have an equivalent in the Git format: issue tracking and versions, off the top of my head.

I don’t to say blame GH for having an incentive, as it’s hard to say I have my eggs in GitHub’s basket: if I needed to move to another provider my code is already in my projects folder, and I can manually move any open issues over. Still, it’d be a wonderful gesture from Microsoft to the OSS world of they made such features an open-source extension to Git.

Discussion on GH's official blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18847043

This move makes sense IMO. There are a lot of Hello world public repos out there which is actually crowding search results and inflating number of "open source projects" in Github.

This will be available tomorrow, they published the post too early.

Also note that these private repositories are limited to 3 collaborators.

This is available right now. GitHub released the feature earlier than planned.