«In weighing different possibilities, we decided to start fresh without the constraints [cut] that hub can be safely aliased to git.» Uh, that is definitely "e

«In weighing different possibilities, we decided to start fresh without the constraints [cut] that hub can be safely aliased to git.» Uh, that is definitely "embrace, extend, extinguish". The official github client, hub, was 100% compatible with git and offered additional feature (embrace, extend). Now the official github client is not 100% compatible with git anymore (extinguish).