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0 pointsarugulum6y ago0 comments

I have the opposite view: the success of GitHub and the growth of code being open by default with everything running through git has probably brought more people into the git ecosystem than would have otherwise. I primarily use GitHub, but whenever I need something that I need to run myself I know I can fairly seamlessly switch over to something like GitLab.

For example, if GitHub ever started using a very proprietary application, I would just switch over to using regular git, and I'm guessing many others would too.

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keytarsolo6y ago

I am with you on this one. I use GitHub to share code, and participate in projects. I use my own GitBucket instance for anything purely personal that I don't want to lose, but don't want to make nice or document and then at work we use GitLab.

I'm all in on git in a way that I might not have been without GitHub making it so huge. Without GitHub, we'd probably all be using git at home but SVN at the office.

jeena6y ago

I don't believe you would. It's more probable that you'd install that proprietary application to get the features which standard git lacks at that time.

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