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Now that Bitbucket also supports Git repositories, it seams to me that it is a good alternative to GitHub, especially since its free plan includes unlimited private repositories, which is not available on GitHub. Yet, GitHub seams much more popular.
Are there any major reasons to choose GitHub as the hosting site for Git repositories instead of Bitbucket?
(Although I have no problems with making my personal projects publicly available in general, I like the idea of being able to make the switch from public to private or vice versa any time I want. But if there are some good reasons to use GitHub, I would be willing to give up this freedom.)
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Both offer public and private repository options. GitHub is better suited for individual projects, while BitBucket is much better for enterprise-level projects. In broad terms, both Bitbucket and GitHub have advantages and features that make them both well-suited to certain types of development teams.
It allows users to have unlimited free repository. Bitbucket allows users to have free private repository but with maximum of five collaborators. GitHub allows users to have free private repository but with maximum of three collaborators.
Support and Community. Bitbucket is geared largely towards businesses and enterprises. As such, the majority of its users rely on it for private repositories. On the other hand, GitHub is the largest host for public code, and in turn, has a huge open source community.
Bitbucket is more flexible than GitHub While GitHub comes with a lot of features and allows you to create your own workflows, Bitbucket arguably has more flexibility built-in. Bitbucket can also import from Git, CodePlex, Google Code, SourceForge, and SVN. GitHub, meanwhile, can import from Git, SVN, HG, and TFS.
This should probably be community wiki, since it's subjective but ultimately I think of use to the community.
GitHub's greatest strength is that it's widely in use, and also supported by more 3rd parties. For example, continuous integration services like Travis CI or BuildHive feature transparent integration with GitHub.
Personally, I use GitHub for public code because it's pretty widely used and supported and use Codeplane for my private code, because $9 a month for unlimited repos is pretty good.
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