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Google Code was such an improvement over SourceForge. I think the real problem of Google Code was that it took them too long to support git. When GitHub started
by fafner 12y ago
Google Code was such an improvement over SourceForge. I think the real problem of Google Code was that it took them too long to support git. When GitHub started Google Code was still SVN only and later they only added Mercurial support. This made people look at GitHub and GitHub could shine with some new ideas, like making code contributions extremely easy and placing the code first. Which of course further increased the popularity of git and so on. By the time Google Code added git support many major projects had moved and GitHub was simply the place to be.
- DannyBee 12y ago" I think the real problem of Google Code was that it took them too long to support git." Yeah, this is true. Part of it was that it was going to require a ton of work to fit Git's concepts and protocols (remember, git only started supporting smart http in 2010) into the infrastructure we had. It wasn't until the storage backend for code was completely rewritten, and better http support was added to git that it really became feasible. (Note that Google code has a completely replicated storage backend infrastructure. It's not just a ton of git/mercurial/svn setups)