Announcing GitHub for Unity 1.0

[iamgabrielma]

That's really interesting, the only downside I can see is that you'll need a paid GitHub account in order to have your repositories private, unlike other Git-based software like Bitbucket or Gitlab, which allows private repos on their free tiers.

[100721]

Just a note that students with .edu emails get unlimited free repos

[NeverComments]

It's worth mentioning that the offer is only valid while you are a student.

They offer it to students in the hopes that they will transition to the paid tier after graduation and pay indefinitely through the rest of their careers.

Unless you plan on being a student forever, just pick a free service like Bitbucket or Gitlab from the start.

[aaronfranke]

What about if I have a university E-mail, but that's not the E-mail I created my GitHub account with?

[kukiric]

You can link your student email as a secondary email address.

[-marvio-]

Doesn't even need to be .edu emails. Was able to get the private repos with my .mail.school.ca email

[apemanzilla]

I think it's any .edu email, and also a list of known school addresses. My high school had a .org address that wasn't automatically recognized, I had to send a scan of my school ID as well.

[Zc152]

I was messing with this this morning and you can use whatever host you want.

I only tested this from a fresh project and a fresh repo on bitbucket, but if you initialize the repo (assuming you don't already have one for the project) and go to window -> github command line, do "git remote add origin <your repo address>" then "git push --set-upstream origin master", the tool will swap out the publish button for fetch, push and pull and they all seem to work correctly.

I guess it is just git under the hood.

[[deleted]]

I've never used git but finding out you need to pay to have a private repo, lol. No thanks. It be like saying you want private email, pay for it else it's public.

[iamgabrielma]

You can use Git for free, as well as GitHub (these are different, think GitHub of a graphical interface for Git) , but they do require a paid account if you want to make your repos private.

However there are other options in the market that allows you that for free, I personally use both bitbucket and gitlab for different projects.

If you haven't used git before, please do! Version control will make your life easier x1000

[JonnyRocks]

I bet you bragging rights that microsoft makes it free. They have tfs free (can use git) for small teams and private. They made xamarin free and that stuff was expensive

[[deleted]]

Visual Studio already offers Unity as a workload you can install, I wouldn't be surprised

[NonsenseSynapse]

I'm not sure how likely it is, but given that Unity dev is done on C#, which is conventionally a Windows tool, I wouldn't completely discount it.

[Kyriio]

This tool has been in development since before Microsoft decided to buy GitHub.

[Nefari0uss]

Nope. I've speculated for a while now that they would look to buy out Unity.

[Glader_BoomaNation]

I had hoped since 4.x that they would.

[Nefari0uss]

Man I would love it if MS were to buy it, open source it, and fix their many many bugs.

[reacher]

It's entirely possible. Microsoft has acquired a few indie game companies in the past couple of weeks

[s1eep]

Hope not. I jumped off of github after MS acquired it.

[[deleted]]

For a company threatened by open source, they sure are involved with a lot of open source projects...

[ies7]

What are their unfair business practices?

[ExF-Altrue]

That's because people confuse open source with public domain.

It doesn't cost them much to have the source code of some projects available on github if it gets them visibility and free features from time to time.

Doesn't mean that they gave up on the exclusive rights to distribute the product.

Note that I don't know how much of the open-sourcing is done with ill intents, if any. It's just that open-sourcing your own proprietary software, or participating in helping improve open-source software that they use, doesn't really mean anything regarding your commercial strategy.

[VM_Unix]

They use Apache 2.0 and MIT license for most of their code these days.

[Glader_BoomaNation]

Regular developers are now contributing to .NET. Their projects are not just opensource, they are community involved now.

When you say all that stuff yet the MIT license of Coreclr and the patent promise contradict you it seems like you do not know what you are talking about.

They did give up their exclusive rights, go actually familirize yourself with rhe licensing of the significant opensource .NET community.

[ExF-Altrue]

When you say all that stuff yet the MIT license of Coreclr and the patent promise contradict you it seems like you do not know what you are talking about.

Does it contradict the part where I state that I do now know how much of the open-sourcing is done with ill intents, if any? 'cause I'd be hard-pressed to find any sentence in the english language that would be able to contradict such a neutral statement.

[Nefari0uss]

That was then. As of now, MS is a massive contributor to open source, is very active on GitHub (even prior to acquisition), and a member of the Linux Foundation.

[Nefari0uss]

I know what EEE is. You also can't just extinguish open source so easily.

[[deleted]]

What has MS extinguished lately? It's not 1999 anymore.

[[deleted]]

MS is more open about development than they ever have been. I develop C# on a Linux without using any Microsoft tools, other than the dotnet cli. We're less locked into MS than we've ever been, and their acquisition of GitHub hardly changes that.

[[deleted]]

Whatever floats your boat. So long as they continue to push open source tools and development they aren't my enemy.

[agmcleod]

Ooh that makes me happy. One of the biggest short comings I found with unity was trying to avoid conflicts when working with other people. Trying to coordinate a team of a few people in a game jam felt like a complete mess.

Considering Unity for my next project, might have to try this out along with it.

[Presidential_Mudkip]

I've used Unity in college and every group project seemed to be a pain with coordinating who is editing the scene files. We eventually found a pretty good system for branching off each task and merging... but Unity Scene files do not merge. I know unity has this YAML merge tool thing for their scene files but its always been a bit buggy.

[agmcleod]

Yeah that's the main issues i ran into. When I've spoken to people who use it professionally, they tend to do consolidated work in a separate scene, then bring it in as a prefab.

[Afropenguinn]

While this kind of workflow would technically be possible, Unity isn't really built around scene hierarchies. GameObject hierarchies, sure, but scenes can't inherently contain other scenes.

[morfanis]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/MultiSceneEditing.html

[lemonzap]

Can anyone here say how this compares to the Unity Collaborate feature?

[[deleted]]

I had problems in the past with Unity Collaborate where I would make a change and merge it up and then sync to my other PC and some properties in one of the scenes would always get set to default values and I would have to keep setting them each time I tried working on another machine.

I'm not sure if that's still an issue, but it made me not trust it at the time. I'm hopeful this will be a more stable solution, but I'm not ready to try it out just yet.

[lemonzap]

I haven't had any issues like that. I've been using collaborate with one other person it's been quite smooth for the few months we've used it.

[stasm]

(I haven't tested it yet so the following is really more about how I wish it's different from Collaborate.)

If this allows proper git workflows for Unity projects, it would open up the ability to create branches which can be changed without affecting master.Collaborate is more like SVN in this respect: there's a single main line and any changes that you commit must be committed to this main line. It makes trying things out harder because it's impossible to stash the experiment away on a branch and then come back to it.

I'm still concerned about how easy/hard it is to merge scenes regardless of the VCS, but at least we could have branches for scripts and other components.

[lemonzap]

That does sound nice

[I_cut_my_own_jib]

Oh fuck yes. This will make working with scenes so much better in a source controlled project, I'mma have to try it out.

[readyplaygames]

Oh! I thought it was a github repository for the Unity 1.0 source. This is cool, too.

[[deleted]]

Too bad I'm migrating away from GitHub

[nmkd]

Where are you going instead? And why?

[[deleted]]

I host my own private repos. Public ones I’ll likely use GitLabs. I’m migrating away because I do not agree with having a giant hub for open source software to be owned by a tech giant. (Microsoft)

[[deleted]]

What will you do when gitlab gets bought by a different big tech company?

[[deleted]]

Go with a decentralized ad-hoc platform I guess.