Actually, the two services are quite different. GitHub hosts git repositories and integrates with other services. Google Code hosts SVN repositories, but also i

Actually, the two services are quite different. GitHub hosts git repositories and integrates with other services. Google Code hosts SVN repositories, but also includes bug-tracking, easy analytics, bandwidth, and downloads. A more plausible thing for google would be to build a backend for git so they could store git objects, either on bigtable or on GFS. They need this to make the hook into their infrastructure. As soon as that backend is done, they don't need that much work to get a service akin to GitHub. It doesn't really ring with me that they should want to acquire GitHub.