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848 points thefilmore | 3 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.64s | source
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bandrami ◴[13 May 25 06:03 UTC] No.43969975[source]▶
Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.
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ahoka ◴[13 May 25 07:02 UTC] No.43970282[source]▶
Git wouldn't be mainstream without GitHub though.
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1. dijit ◴[13 May 25 07:05 UTC] No.43970311[source]▶
It might feel like that now, but in 2011 github was just one of a bunch of code forges and at the time they were all similar in quality.

Gitorious was chosen for the meego/maemo team for example.

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2. petepete ◴[13 May 25 07:22 UTC] No.43970413[source]▶
In those days GitHub probably had more eyes on it in a day then Gitorious did in a quarter.

And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.

But you can't deny, it's always been pretty great.

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3. TuxSH ◴[13 May 25 16:12 UTC] No.43974513[source]▶
> And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.

Hardly surprising, though, social networks are prone to centralization (due to network effect), and GitHub & its competitors (anything that offers git repos + issue tracking + fork-ability, really) are social networks.

Also, GitHub offering private repos for free right after they got acquired by Microsoft helped a lot. A lot of people, myself included, were using gitlab.com for private repos at that time