Before this gets downvoted, are there any notable features that could only have been added thanks to the Microsoft acquisition?
I think GitHub actions are pretty successful, which may not have been developed by Microsoft as it was launched right after acquisition, but I guess it's easier to keep free since it runs on their own hardware.
I don't immediately see copilot as a GitHub feature, but maybe that'll change for better or worse.
I think you're asking a slightly incorrect question. Very few features could "only" be added thanks to the MS acquisition. What you really want to know is how many more features were added, thanks to MS. Or, how much longer would those features have taken to be built if GitHub was not acquired by MS. My gut feeling, seeing GH pre- and post-acquisition, says that a lot of the stuff they shipped post-MS would simply never have been shipped before.
Under MS, they shipped - just off the top of my head:
* dev containers
* vscode-github-in-the-browser
* github actions
* that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t
in any repo)
* copilot
I seriously doubt they could have shipped a single one of those things pre-MS.
GitHub Actions seems to use Azure a lot under the hood; given that they seemed to use AWS for older features (attachments, releases, etc.) it seems likely that it actually needed Microsoft.
My best guess, with no knowledge of what actually happened, is that it was derived from Azure Pipelines.
I think GitHub actions are pretty successful, which may not have been developed by Microsoft as it was launched right after acquisition, but I guess it's easier to keep free since it runs on their own hardware.
I don't immediately see copilot as a GitHub feature, but maybe that'll change for better or worse.