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Meet Atlassian Stash: Git Repository Management For Enterprise Teams

by plunchete on 5/1/12, 4:53 PM with 45 comments

  • by languagehacker on 5/1/12, 7:50 PM

    Okay, Atlassian, we get it. You think that GitHub is your biggest competitor. You're worried about the idea of source control being the focal point of developer productivity, because it makes issue tracking a secondary feature, and not a primary ure. And this threatens your biggest product, Jira, which is already kind of a mess to configure for source control. It's the reason why you want to own BitBucket and directly compete with Git, and it's the reason why you're adding this to your ecosystem -- so that you can own these aspects customers' projects. Customers who need source control hosting first would start with BitBucket, and customers who need it after they've project-managed and roadmapped everything in advance would realize late in the game that they need something like Stash.

    It seems like trying to capture every kind of use case with a smattering of different products will ultimately be Atlassian's undoing. Yeah, you capture more of the market in total by taking this approach, but it also means that you have to maintain additional products, many of which are at odds with each other. There are so many technology businesses failed that tried to be "everything to everybody" that it's not even worth getting into here. I think they're better off identifying a strong, unified voice and promoting a single right way to handle end-to-end software productivity. But if it works for them, whatever.

  • by nemesisj on 5/1/12, 5:28 PM

    As a current Jira user and customer, I find this announcement and the idea that they've been working on this really annoying. There are already way too many products in the Atlassian ecosystem, and the Jira product offering is like a cautionary tale for all aspiring enterprise software systems out there - slow, big, ugly, very customisable, but really tedious. I wish they would just focus on Jira, cede this idea of source control software to Github (which already has a firewall product, most people don't know this) and make everything work together really well.

    My two cents.

  • by luser001 on 5/1/12, 6:13 PM

    Atlassian keeps it at $10 for 1-5 users. Awesome!

    And they give the source code to commercial and academic customers for customization.

    Transparent pricing. They may be the least enterprisey of the enterprise vendors. :)

  • by jbottigliero on 5/1/12, 6:38 PM

    Anyone else think the naming of a product after a command used in the technology it represents seems a little strange?

    See: git stash --help

  • by bchhun on 5/1/12, 9:02 PM

    GitStack[1] has been quite an awesome Windows-only solution for the company I work for.

    [1] http://gitstack.com/

  • by mullr on 5/2/12, 5:25 AM

    Gerrit (http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) addresses some of the same problem space and comes with an awesome code review system. It also has one of the world's strangest access control systems. But it works and it's free, and the code review makes it all worth it.

  • by mh- on 5/1/12, 6:47 PM

    > Stash fits into your environment and doesn’t force you to use a pre-packaged appliance which you don’t have any control over.

    zing.

    (for those unaware, this is directed at GitHub's enterprise offering - which is a VM "appliance" that boots into a menu)

  • by ckdarby on 5/1/12, 6:57 PM

    Gitweb + Gitolite = free & does everything this does

  • by quicksilver03 on 5/2/12, 10:34 AM

    Another open source (Java-based) alternative is Gitblit http://gitblit.com/ .