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I firmly believe that GitHub has at least 40% role in git's success. Another 40% is Linus, and the remaining 20% is git's technical merits.
by gkya 10y ago
I firmly believe that GitHub has at least 40% role in git's success. Another 40% is Linus, and the remaining 20% is git's technical merits.
- tacostakohashi 10y agoSounds about right to me... but it's hard to decouple things so neatly. It wouldn't really be possible to create an SVNHub that worked as well as github.
- gkya 10y agowrt SVNHub, well, probably you're right. But on the technical level any <insert your DVCS>Hub would be at least nearly as good as GitHub. And git didn't invent DVCS.
- sqrt17 10y agoBefore everyone got onto GitHub, there was SourceForge and GoogleCode. Both worked well for a lot of people for quite some while. Also, if you really want to, you can use the SVN interface of GitHub and never go through git. You could, in its time, also use Google code with git repositories but without the pileup if nice little things that make GitHub more than just a git hosting service