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by clktmr 594 days ago
Can you imagine their fork extending git with a feature which is incompatible to mainline git and then forcing user's to switch to their fork via github? I can, and it will give them the power to extinguish mainline git and force everything they want on their users (telemetry, licence agreements, online registration...). That might be the reason they're embracing git right now. The fork being open source doesn't help at all.

I'm not saying this shouldn't be merged, but I think people should be aware and see the early signs.
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arp242 593 days ago
There is no fork. It's some new stuff they're working on and have sent patches to upstream git for (and will presumably get merged in due time – or at least, it's certainly written with the intent to get merged upstream).

https://lore.kernel.org/git/7d43a1634bbe2d2efa96a806e3de1f1f...

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atombender 594 days ago
Sure, I can imagine. But this isn't what's happening.
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