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There was a time I would have really hoped for that. When Github was still new and the only, pathetic, alternatives were SF and Google Code. But back then, Google had its head stuck all the way up SVN's trunk.

Now I really hope they don't acquire Github. No website I know of has improved in such a consistently good way. Pure UI improvements, awesome new features and no feeling of feature creep on the user side (I don't feel overwhelmed by Github's features at all, I just want to try them all!).

Google does a decent job on their apps but I honestly think Github is a much higher quality shop: do one thing and do it extremely well.

With all that said, how much Google uses Github has little to do with acquisitions. They also use Twitter and you won't see them acquiring that.




+1 for "had its head stuck all the way up SVN's trunk"

Awesome phrase that I shall steal for myself. Like, "the team wanted to use Git but management had their head stuck all the way up SVN's trunk."


> I honestly think Github is a much higher quality shop: do one thing and do it extremely well.

You're saying this because you haven't heard about or used atom.io ;)


I've heard about it. I have an invite left in fact if anyone wants. As a linux user though it's useless to me currently.

But atom.io is not part of Github. Sure, it's made by them, but when I talk about Github I mean the website.


If you still have the invite I'd love it. Email's in my profile.




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