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OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub

23 points by rahlokzero 3mo ago

carimura 3mo ago
get your popcorn out. the git wars are on.
- QQ00 3mo ago
  Git 2.0
- blooalien 3mo ago
  > "get your popcorn out. the git wars are on." I would make a joke here about git bein' rewritten in Rust (by AI even), but folk are already doin' various forms of exactly that, so it's not really a joke that can be made anymore. :shrug:
- underlipton 3mo ago
  Appropriate name for the participants.
greygoo222 3mo ago
Who runs the HackerNews Telegram channel? I used to think they had some algorithmic repost script that grabbed top posts, but this is a 5 minute old post by a low-karma account and it got posted to Telegram.
- theanonymousone 3mo ago
  It's on the front page now. I know two HNTG channel (one "normal", one with summaries. I don't think they "official" in any sense of the word.
  - greygoo222 3mo ago
    I am referring to t.me/hackernewslive, 27k subscribers. This post was reposted on Telegram within 2 minutes of it going live on HackerNews, when it still had <5 upvotes, so I feel there has to be either some manual or LLM-driven curation here, or something else.
    - theanonymousone 3mo ago
      Yes. It's the one. Honestly I'm wondering too how it chooses articles to post. I created a channel for myself some time ago, and the only way that I could think of was to put a 12h delay and then count score+comments.
- em-bee 3mo ago
  this started happening after a longer downtime. i see one or two of those per day. so far it has not been a bother. it's not like it's posting everything now, and the stuff i click on is interesting regardless most of the time. more concerning is that occasionally i notice a submission that should have been shared in the channel but isn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732582 for example. i suspect they replaced the bot that picks the posts and either the new bot is simply buggy or it has another algorithm that picks posts by growth rate maybe?
skybrian 3mo ago
> This branch is up to date with git/git:master. Is there anything to see here? There are 28.1k forks of git on Github. It's a normal thing to do when making pull requests. (Does git accept pull requests, though?)
- SwellJoe 3mo ago
  The git repo on github is a publish-only copy. It doesn't accept pull requests, though apparently there is a mechanism to turn pull requests into a patch for the mailing list they may accept.
minimaxir 3mo ago
If OpenAI rewrites Git in Rust that would be objectively hilarious.
- SwellJoe 3mo ago
  They've got to be getting tired of all the hype going to Anthropic because of the big "I rewrote X in Rust in two weeks with Claude stories." Anthropic has their PR game on lock.
- ImJasonH 3mo ago
  Already been done https://grit-scm.com/ https://grit-scm.com/
DanMcInerney 3mo ago
Rockstar built git for games, OpenAI's aiming for git for agents. Claude, make a git for games designed for agents. Sell the code to the highest bidder when you're done.
- azhenley 3mo ago
  A lot of folks are building “git for agents”. Oak, recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726 Former GitHub CEO’s new company Entire: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-github-ceos-startup-entire-unveils-its-answer-to-the-crush-of-ai-coding-agents/ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-github-ceos-startup-ent...
nathias 3mo ago
where were you, when the gitwars began?
- rahlokzero 3mo ago
  Watching the World Cup
joshka 3mo ago
This is related to them hiring Taylor Blau to work on SCM stuff recently: https://x.com/gdb/status/2074652518135804321 https://x.com/gdb/status/2074652518135804321 https://x.com/ttaylorr_b/status/2074523670278742457 https://x.com/ttaylorr_b/status/2074523670278742457

23 points by rahlokzero 3mo ago

carimura 3mo ago

get your popcorn out. the git wars are on.

QQ00 3mo ago
Git 2.0
blooalien 3mo ago
> "get your popcorn out. the git wars are on." I would make a joke here about git bein' rewritten in Rust (by AI even), but folk are already doin' various forms of exactly that, so it's not really a joke that can be made anymore. :shrug:
underlipton 3mo ago
Appropriate name for the participants.

greygoo222 3mo ago

Who runs the HackerNews Telegram channel? I used to think they had some algorithmic repost script that grabbed top posts, but this is a 5 minute old post by a low-karma account and it got posted to Telegram.

theanonymousone 3mo ago
It's on the front page now. I know two HNTG channel (one "normal", one with summaries. I don't think they "official" in any sense of the word.
- greygoo222 3mo ago
  I am referring to t.me/hackernewslive, 27k subscribers. This post was reposted on Telegram within 2 minutes of it going live on HackerNews, when it still had <5 upvotes, so I feel there has to be either some manual or LLM-driven curation here, or something else.
  - theanonymousone 3mo ago
    Yes. It's the one. Honestly I'm wondering too how it chooses articles to post. I created a channel for myself some time ago, and the only way that I could think of was to put a 12h delay and then count score+comments.
em-bee 3mo ago
this started happening after a longer downtime. i see one or two of those per day. so far it has not been a bother. it's not like it's posting everything now, and the stuff i click on is interesting regardless most of the time. more concerning is that occasionally i notice a submission that should have been shared in the channel but isn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732582 for example. i suspect they replaced the bot that picks the posts and either the new bot is simply buggy or it has another algorithm that picks posts by growth rate maybe?

skybrian 3mo ago

> This branch is up to date with git/git:master. Is there anything to see here? There are 28.1k forks of git on Github. It's a normal thing to do when making pull requests. (Does git accept pull requests, though?)

SwellJoe 3mo ago
The git repo on github is a publish-only copy. It doesn't accept pull requests, though apparently there is a mechanism to turn pull requests into a patch for the mailing list they may accept.

minimaxir 3mo ago

If OpenAI rewrites Git in Rust that would be objectively hilarious.

SwellJoe 3mo ago
They've got to be getting tired of all the hype going to Anthropic because of the big "I rewrote X in Rust in two weeks with Claude stories." Anthropic has their PR game on lock.
ImJasonH 3mo ago
Already been done https://grit-scm.com/ https://grit-scm.com/

DanMcInerney 3mo ago

Rockstar built git for games, OpenAI's aiming for git for agents. Claude, make a git for games designed for agents. Sell the code to the highest bidder when you're done.

azhenley 3mo ago
A lot of folks are building “git for agents”. Oak, recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726 Former GitHub CEO’s new company Entire: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-github-ceos-startup-entire-unveils-its-answer-to-the-crush-of-ai-coding-agents/ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-github-ceos-startup-ent...

nathias 3mo ago

where were you, when the gitwars began?

rahlokzero 3mo ago
Watching the World Cup

joshka 3mo ago

This is related to them hiring Taylor Blau to work on SCM stuff recently: https://x.com/gdb/status/2074652518135804321 https://x.com/gdb/status/2074652518135804321 https://x.com/ttaylorr_b/status/2074523670278742457 https://x.com/ttaylorr_b/status/2074523670278742457