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As far as I'm aware, git isn't a standard. It's a single implementation.


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Git is not a fundamental commercial standard, I was winging about the state of industry in general.

Isn't this just Git?

Technically there isn't a single version of Git either, though (thankfully) they can all operate on the same repositories (whereas in UNIX land, you'll find different file systems that the others do not support). They do however have some different capabilities. jGit for instance can push to S3, which is pretty neat.

Meh. Git is widespread but not everyone uses it.

We have not "as an industry" moved to git. There's a vocal subset of git fans, but it is by no means an industry standard.

Not git? That's so off trend.

git controls versions and is open-source

you’re building a proprietary solution for something that isn’t a problem at all


It's literally not all git. Every single thing I mentioned outside of the git repository itself is not git, and makes up a significant amount of services that would require disparate, specific replacements and buy in and compatibility with all of the developers, teams and units of a company. It's a vast, extremely costly amount of work.

Just throwing up a server somewhere running git and a few software packages is nowhere near the same thing.


You're completely ignoring the massive adoption and extension of git by the industry. Its not like git is still developed in service to kernel dev exclusively.

git is not a GNU project.

What open standard? Email? Github doesn't change git, it changes the workflows around it.

Even if everyone used github, they're still using vanilla git underneath.


Open source has moved to git, mostly because being standardized on one vcs made it easier for people to contribute.

A lot of companies don't use git.


I can't, the world (open source projects and work both) is using git.

Why isn't Git using something else? Why go to the trouble of implementing something like that?

I don't mean that as some ridiculing criticism, I just am genuinely puzzled.


Git is great. It’s FOSS, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to a hostile corporate takeover. Take email for example. It’s an open standard, yet it’s usage is dominated by large corporate players.

Except that git is used specifically by users who are downloading and compiling software.

And not everyone uses git, unfortunately.

It's all fair. Looking back at my comment I sounded a little bit harsh and I apologize for that.

What I was trying to establish is that there's really no solid ground to claim that any Git platform is a copy of another one since they are all essentially productivity and team-work wrappers around Git.

If you're talking about the general information architecture that's how SourceForge was even before Git existed, so hardly an original idea.


Git isn't a blockchain.
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