You heard it right! Free users will be getting unlimited private repositories at GitHub.

If you were a paid GitHub user, you need not to pay from this week for the private repository feature. Previously, GitHub always offered free accounts but the caveat was that your code had to be public. To get private repositories, you had to pay or some people used BitBucket or GitLab for that. Starting tomorrow, that limitation is gone. Free GitHub users now get unlimited private projects with up to three collaborators.

The number of collaborators is the only limitation here and there’s no change to how the service handles public repositories, which can still have unlimited collaborators.

This feels like a sign of goodwill on behalf of Microsoft, which closed its acquisition of GitHub last October, with former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman taking over as GitHub’s CEO.

Unlimited Private Repositories! Seat Tight! The feature will go live tomorrow.

Source: https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/