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Good point, people have largely forgotten the distinction between Git and GitHub.

• Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  Very true and the search engines are to be blamed as well. Recently, I was searching for a Git - fork project (i.e. a project forked from git itself) which allowed separate machine based accounts for Git branches. It was quite famous, I had used it about 4 years back and I don't remember its name now. Now, this is the worst case scenario for the search engines - • 'git fork project' would bring numerous github forked projects. • 'git original source' would bring the mirror of git in github, but then again there are hundreds of fork. After, lot of time spent on this in vain, I gave up. UPDATE: While writing this comment I remembered the USP of that project was 'Branch specific permissions', so I gave a fresh attempt at finding it and I did via SO! It's Gitolite[1]. [1]https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
  • throwaway8941 6y ago
    Have you tried adding -github to your search queries?
    • Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
      Yep, I tried Github as part of the query. Anyways, even without 'GitHub' almost all front page results are from there and that's one of the point I'm trying to make.
      • webmaven 6y ago
        You can also exclude results from the site completely with -site:github.com, though you're still left with the problem that 'git fork' and variants won't really bring up results that are forks of git, but results that are about forking in git. Ultimately, in this case only recalling the USP or a similarly unique phrase was ever going to help you find the result you were looking for.
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