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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by soperj on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:48PM (#9194506)
they were talking about it being a private repo anyway that they were worried about.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by duaneb on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:01PM (#9195475)
Well, it'd be pretty shitty. Diffs would be binary and practically useless; merges would have to be entirely manual. Github would lose more in brand trust than they would gain in saved costs on those repos (or lost revenue).
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