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Code management that doesn't suck

28 points by mfocaraccio 11y ago

glibgil 11y ago
I don't see "distributed" anywhere on the product page. That makes it DOA for me, but nice effort
- savanaly 11y ago
  Could you elaborate for my benefit what you mean by that? I thought git was distributed by its very nature since the repository lives in many remotes and no single one is critical to the others.
  - glibgil 11y ago
    > Gitcolony.com > In our servers > This is our cloud hosted version of Gitcolony which we operate and maintain for you. git is distributed. Gitcolony is not distributed. For that matter GitHub, as a review tool, is also not distributed. For an example of a commercial tool with distributed reviews see http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/review http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/review For an example of an open source tool with distributed reviews see https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise
- benwilber0 11y ago
  Git is distributed..
  - Joky 11y ago
    The product is not "git"...
    - mfocaraccio 11y ago
      We are based on Git, in fact you can connect your GitHub Enterprise account
  - glibgil 11y ago
    See my response to sibling comment
    - deleted 11y ago
      [deleted]
ktRolster 11y ago
The headline is somewhat insulting, because I don't think my current code management system sucks.....different strokes for different folks, I guess. The product being marketed is a replacement for Gerrit, though. They have found a different way to handle code reviews, merges, and also added features like issue trackers and integrations with other tools. It might be worth taking a look at, but I tend to prefer free (as in speech) tools over proprietary tools.
leemac 11y ago
Some of the English is sounds a bit quirky to me ... "Pull Requests like never seen before"? Interesting nonetheless as we've been looking for software similar to Gerrit.
- mfocaraccio 11y ago
  We will work on that, thank you for your feedback! :)
mconzen 11y ago
The pricing is a little weird here. As the team size grows, it gets more expensive per head at every pricing level. Usually, it's the opposite.
BinaryIdiot 11y ago
This looks interesting. Does it give you the ability to setup rules so, say, X amount of reviewers must approve a PR before it could get merged? Also what about protecting, say, master from direct pushes? Github seems stagnant and I know Gitlab is rapidly working on many of these types of features; it would be cool to see better support for reviews in general in any of these systems.
- mfocaraccio 11y ago
  Yes, you can do that and many other rules: your CI, open issues and you can even have linked pull requests from different repositories. If you have any other questions, just let me know and I'd more than happy to help :)
sytse 11y ago
I love the features of GitColony. At GitLab we had many similar requests. We already implemented multiple reviewers, rebasing, marking something as a work in progress. But many of their other features are also very useful. And the good news is GitLab support is coming soon.
- mfocaraccio 11y ago
  Thank you Sytse for your words, I do really appreciate them :) GitLab is a great product and we do think we can help to make it even better with Gitcolony!
lobster_johnson 11y ago
So how does the workflow work, if you're already using Github and want to keep hosting your projects there? Does it simply pull and push commits via an app token?
- mfocaraccio 11y ago
  That's correct! Gitcolony runs on top of your Github's repos and we keep everything synced both ways (we don't lock in any data at all).

28 points by mfocaraccio 11y ago

glibgil 11y ago

I don't see "distributed" anywhere on the product page. That makes it DOA for me, but nice effort

savanaly 11y ago
Could you elaborate for my benefit what you mean by that? I thought git was distributed by its very nature since the repository lives in many remotes and no single one is critical to the others.
- glibgil 11y ago
  > Gitcolony.com > In our servers > This is our cloud hosted version of Gitcolony which we operate and maintain for you. git is distributed. Gitcolony is not distributed. For that matter GitHub, as a review tool, is also not distributed. For an example of a commercial tool with distributed reviews see http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/review http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/review For an example of an open source tool with distributed reviews see https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise
benwilber0 11y ago
Git is distributed..
- Joky 11y ago
  The product is not "git"...
  - mfocaraccio 11y ago
    We are based on Git, in fact you can connect your GitHub Enterprise account
- glibgil 11y ago
  See my response to sibling comment
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]

ktRolster 11y ago

The headline is somewhat insulting, because I don't think my current code management system sucks.....different strokes for different folks, I guess. The product being marketed is a replacement for Gerrit, though. They have found a different way to handle code reviews, merges, and also added features like issue trackers and integrations with other tools. It might be worth taking a look at, but I tend to prefer free (as in speech) tools over proprietary tools.

leemac 11y ago

Some of the English is sounds a bit quirky to me ... "Pull Requests like never seen before"? Interesting nonetheless as we've been looking for software similar to Gerrit.

mfocaraccio 11y ago
We will work on that, thank you for your feedback! :)

mconzen 11y ago

The pricing is a little weird here. As the team size grows, it gets more expensive per head at every pricing level. Usually, it's the opposite.

BinaryIdiot 11y ago

This looks interesting. Does it give you the ability to setup rules so, say, X amount of reviewers must approve a PR before it could get merged? Also what about protecting, say, master from direct pushes? Github seems stagnant and I know Gitlab is rapidly working on many of these types of features; it would be cool to see better support for reviews in general in any of these systems.

mfocaraccio 11y ago
Yes, you can do that and many other rules: your CI, open issues and you can even have linked pull requests from different repositories. If you have any other questions, just let me know and I'd more than happy to help :)

sytse 11y ago

I love the features of GitColony. At GitLab we had many similar requests. We already implemented multiple reviewers, rebasing, marking something as a work in progress. But many of their other features are also very useful. And the good news is GitLab support is coming soon.

mfocaraccio 11y ago
Thank you Sytse for your words, I do really appreciate them :) GitLab is a great product and we do think we can help to make it even better with Gitcolony!

lobster_johnson 11y ago

So how does the workflow work, if you're already using Github and want to keep hosting your projects there? Does it simply pull and push commits via an app token?

mfocaraccio 11y ago
That's correct! Gitcolony runs on top of your Github's repos and we keep everything synced both ways (we don't lock in any data at all).