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[VideroBoy]

So, yeah. I have some projects I manage with Mercurial that I want to make kind of public. I figure these are my best choices.

As far as I can tell the main difference between Bitbucket and Google is the existence of private repositories, though the code of most of my projects will be open source anyway so that point is moot. On the other hand I'll usually want to license my content assets (artwork and any non-code items I created myself) differently from my code for a given project. This isn't something Google explicitly allows; they only have official choices between open source "share alike" licences for non-code content. I can ignore this in Google and stick in a readme file, but still.

Other than that, Bitbucket and Google Code almost equivalent. Any suggestions or should I flip a coin?

[dcarrigg]

We use BitBucket for the source at Retro Affect. My experience with it has been nothing but positive. The only other option that I would consider moving to right now would be Kiln, but the prices are higher than BitBucket.

I've never used Google Code, so I can't really tell you if it's better or worse.

[dongle]

Bitbucket had some service issues earlier this year but the admins seem to have worked it out. Koduco is using Bitbucket but we may jump ship for github eventually.

[Klaim]

bitbucket is good but in the end I put my projects on google code for some reasons, one being the code review feature (that I don't understand why bitbucket is the only one to not have) and the issue tracking system that is better in google code, even if as simple as the bitbucket one.

In fact, I'd like to see a source-control agnostic github.org :/

[VideroBoy]

I put my projects on google code for some reasons, one being the code review feature (that I don't understand why bitbucket is the only one to not have)

Good point. I suppose that alone gives Google Code an edge, though I've had trouble finding a real breakdown of features for either site. On the other hand Bitbucket has more integrated (or at least more obvious) social networking features, which might be useful when I want to start promoting some of my projects.

Why does this have to be so hard?

[Klaim]

Yeah that's bad.

Maybe if you have time you can push your repos on  both and see wich one fit your needs? It takes time but you'll get a real experience using both.

[VideroBoy]

I think I'll just go with Bitbucket since it looks slightly prettier and so that my projects won't get eaten when Google turns into Skynet. Edit: Already done.