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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by major505 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:39PM (#17223820)
Microsoft adopt git as their main source control, even in internal projects.

Makes sense they try to control the future of the tool they use in so meny projects.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by RyanZAG on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:13AM (#17225303)
Github don't control git --

> Torvalds turned over maintenance on 26 July 2005 to Junio Hamano, a major contributor to the project.[25] Hamano was responsible for the 1.0 release on 21 December 2005, and remains the project's maintainer.[26]

I'm guessing Torvalds still has a lot of control if push came to shove, so we can assume git is executively controlled by Torvalds and Hamano.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by feenix566 on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:02AM (#17227847)
Not many people use git without Github though, whether it's Github proper or a local installation of Github Enterprise. It's pretty tough to do code reviews without it. There are tools out there to do it, but Github is the standard.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Zash on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:47AM (#17226487)
Github does own a vast share of the git-related developer mindshare tho, which is probably more valuable to Microsoft.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by stephenr on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:04PM (#17224253)
Git != GitHub, fyi.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Fill1200 on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:49AM (#17224747)
I want Mercurial and Subversion in GitHub.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by stephenr on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:59AM (#17224792)
Why not just use a service that supports them?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by ergo14 on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:14AM (#17226661)
Use RhodeCode then - but it is a self-hosted solution.
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