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> It was written by GitHub, and has been used in their internal fork of git.git for a long time. The work of integrating it with upstream was sponsored by GitLa
by reificator 8y ago
> It was written by GitHub, and has been used in their internal fork of git.git for a long time. The work of integrating it with upstream was sponsored by GitLab, since it's something they were interested in to save space.
That makes it clear, thank you. My assumption was that GitLab was copying work done by GitHub.
> The feature isn't interesting except for those that run a GitHub-like setup.
Sure, doesn't mean I'm not interested.