> Secondly, GitHub terms only let you have one unpaid account. If I want to maintain some personal repos, but also some with one of my professional hats on, it costs me money. If I want to keep my work on a major project separate to a few sidelines, it costs me money.
What they do allow, though, is adding new "organizations". These are effectively groups that get top level URLs just like users (https://github.com/galvanix/ is one my business partner and I set up).
When you create a repo you can put it in your main account or in any of the organizations you are part of.
If your organization doesn't host any private repos then there is no cost.
Now, this isn't completely disconnected from your main account—you still do everything in that name, but it's close.
> …because I am able to show approximately none of the best professional quality code I write without violating confidentiality agreements, and certainly none of it is in a GitHub repo for public inspection.
What they do allow, though, is adding new "organizations". These are effectively groups that get top level URLs just like users (https://github.com/galvanix/ is one my business partner and I set up).
When you create a repo you can put it in your main account or in any of the organizations you are part of.
If your organization doesn't host any private repos then there is no cost.
Now, this isn't completely disconnected from your main account—you still do everything in that name, but it's close.
> …because I am able to show approximately none of the best professional quality code I write without violating confidentiality agreements, and certainly none of it is in a GitHub repo for public inspection.
Well, ain't that the truth for most of us! :-)