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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by cesarb on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:01PM (#17210246)
> Git was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper

Git was not developed as a clone of BitKeeper, it has a very different design (snapshot-based content-addressed filesystem, versus the SCCS "weave"). If anything, git was a (much faster) clone of Monotone, minus the heavy cryptography focus which made Monotone so slow.

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