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Git That Code!
All about remote servers, pushing, pulling, and cloning.
4 min readMar 10, 2021
In this post, I’m going to talk about the popular remote servers, GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket, how to get your code on the server, and retrieve code from it. Let’s get started!
Remote Server Options
There are 3 Git server options that you hear about, well you might actually only hear about the first 2. You could also roll your own, but that’s a bit out of the scope here. So, here are some options that are free and offer quite a bit.
- GitHub
- GitLab
- BitBucket
These are just the most “popular” options and each have their pluses and minuses, but here are some general features that each offer on their free tiers.
- Free, unlimited private repos (where the code lives)
- Issue tracking
- Wiki per repo
Now here is what each is mainly known for:
- GitHub: Open source software. Most people put their OSS on GitHub for others to contribute to or use
- GitLab: Contains more devop options like Continuious Integration and more access levels
- BitBucket: Has unlimited private repos and integrates well with…
