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It seems GitHub is certainly king now... But how long will it last? I feel that Version Control is such a great market that surely some significant challengers
by theunixbeard 14y ago
It seems GitHub is certainly king now... But how long will it last? I feel that Version Control is such a great market that surely some significant challengers will appear in the next few years. Thoughts?
- yyyt 14y agoThey'll have to invent something really new or have an uphill battle, because GitHub now relies a lot on network externality. In simple words, it is the effect that you chose a popular network for the number of projects on it. I do submit bug reports to projects on BitBucket and GitHub, and not to private bugzillas/tracs (I'm tired of registering and confirming every time.)
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- lstoll 14y agoI think if a new 'leader' in version control systems starts to make ground, github could easily adapt and support it. The github magic isn't just git, it's the network and collaboration tooling around your code.
- human_error 14y agoGitHub makes very easy to collaborate to projects. I think that what makes them different than others such as BitBucket.
- IsTom 14y agoI can't find it right now, but some time ago I've read in a darcs vs git comparison that depending on orders of patches git can sometimes yield two different results. Perhaps in future correctness in huge procjects will be an issue.
- krschultz 14y agoHow many source code bases are larger and have more authors than the linux kernel?
- mark_story 14y agoI know that Facebook had a number of issues trying to migrate to git. Many of these issues came from storing big blobs and mountains of code. There are code bases bigger than the linux kernel, they are often proprietary though.
- jolohaga 14y agoMicrosoft's come to mind.
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoI recall Facebook's git issue revolving around the fact they store all their code in one repo, too.
- jsprinkles 14y agoYou mean like Linux?