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git-the-program/protocol will still be around, as it's in use by Linux and most big projects, and is easy to self host or use in ways not requiring $BIGCORP. G
by Shared404 5y ago
git-the-program/protocol will still be around, as it's in use by Linux and most big projects, and is easy to self host or use in ways not requiring $BIGCORP.
Github could go either way depending on how screwy Microsoft gets, and Gitlab will do their own thing, and could also go either way.
- kkielhofner 5y agoI don't doubt that - the same way CVS, SVN, Bitkeeper, Sourcesafe, etc are still around. Many projects have also migrated from at least CVS -> SVN -> git over the years (and moved all over the place in terms of infra). Exactly.
- Shared404 5y agoFWIW, I expect at least Gitlab, Sourcehut, and Gitea to stick around for a while - It'll require another leap in quality similar to SVN -> git for people to move off of git[0], and being FL/OSS and self-hostable put them in a very strong place imho. I expect Github to be gone outside of enterprise in about a decade or two though, based on what I've seen looking at history. Microsoft at least will continue using it though. [0] Not impossible, but I do find it unlikely to happen on a scale of 1 - 2 decades.
- bombcar 5y agoHonestly all it would take is for Linus to get pissed at git for some reason - if he were to switch the kernel again likely half the world would follow. Pretty unlikely considering that if git doesn't do what he wants he probably can get a pr adding the feature accepted ...
- cestith 5y agoI'd be pretty surprised if the creator of git couldn't get a PR to git approved, honestly.