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I mean, as far as annoucements go, it's a pretty quiet one. We did this. We chose the obvious host. We like ordering commits chronologically, we came up with s

• williamscales 4y ago
  Does Apple not have an internal department that handles this for all their teams? Seems kinda weird for a division of a company to even have to choose their host.
  • olliej 4y ago
    The Open-source projects generally do things separately - e.g. llvm, as you're otherwise requiring apple set up a new account system (blocking contributing on iCloud account would seem less great), and building up its own UI and infrastructure for a git interface. Also given that GitHub is a somewhat universally understood host that people seem to like, and it has all that UI/development integration that people like it kind of makes sense to just use that. It also seems that having GitHub accounts is increasingly widely spread so contributors would not necessarily have to create yet another account with yet another service.
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• pipeline_peak 4y ago
  Why risk anything at all, who outside webkit developers needs to know this? Idk how investors, or any powerful external entities think, but switching to Git in 2022 isn't net positive news. It may be a subtle announcement, but it made it's way onto the forum of a Startup generator / Investment fund.