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Add to SafariWhen comparing Chisel vs Google Cloud Source Repositories, the Slant community recommends Google Cloud Source Repositories for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?” Google Cloud Source Repositories is ranked 8th while Chisel is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Google Cloud Source Repositories is:
Cloud Source Repositories is free for up to 5 project-users per billing account. The free tier comes with up to 50GB free storage total and 50GB free egress per month.
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Pros
Pro Free with no limitations
Both public and private repositories cost nothing to host. You can have any number of them as well as any number of collaborators. The platform itself is also free (libre) and open source software.
Pro Fossil support
This means you get a wiki and a bug tracker that you can work with locally offline and both are version-controlled. You are also able to customize, e.g., the look of your project's repository if you want to.
Pro Free tier
Cloud Source Repositories is free for up to 5 project-users per billing account. The free tier comes with up to 50GB free storage total and 50GB free egress per month.
Pro Excellent security
Everything is stored encrypted in Google's datacenters. You can give fine grained control to other Google accounts and collaborate.
Pro Integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services
Trigger deployments or create custom integrations using Google Cloud Pub/Sub, deploy directly to App Engine or Cloud Functions, and use Cloud Build for CI. Check out code securely (Service Accounts) from your Cloud Compute instances or Container Engine images. View logs in Stackdriver.
Cons
Con No support for Git, Mercurial or SVN
Git especially is the most popular version control tool out there, followed closely by Mercurial and SVN, and Chisel supports neither of them.
Con No inline editing
Unlike some other popular repositories, there is no way to edit inline directly from the source browser. Although, you can easily open up a Theia-based IDE in the browser to edit and run your code by clicking the "Open in Cloud Shell" button. You will still have to commit your changes from the Cloud Shell command line, though.
Con Markdown styling is not as good as GitHub or GitLab
Your README files will not render as nicely as GitHub and GitLab, which may irritate you if you're migrating your repos with nicely-formatted docs.
Con Must set-up billing account
For all Google Cloud Platform projects you must enable Billing. This isn't uncommon for cloud hosting providers but it still could be considered a CON.
