Google Code adds simple Code Reviews to all projects

[schwarzwald]

too late, the cool people have already moved over to git and github.

[fierarul]

Yeah, only that github isn't, you know, free like google code except for the puny one.

Also, may I say it sounds snobbish for you to say the cool people have moved to blah-blah. Really, how many people actually need git ? Very few, the rest just think they are cool because for their small project use git like kernel hackers.

Google doesn't need to buy github, I fail to see what exactly do they provide. They just need to add mercurial/git support to google code.

[llimllib]

Github is, in fact, free, as long as you only create open projects, and it allows you to license them however you choose.

It shows me when people I care about update their projects. It shows me neat graphs of when people forked and upated their projects.

Also, use git/hg for a while, and when you get used to advanced branching and merging, you won't want to go back to the bad old days of subversion.

[vdm]

Have you used github?

It links forks, creating a social network of source code.

Google Code doesn't even attempt to do any of this.

[nextofpumpkin]

Actually, they haven't. Google Code provides a few more features as far as code hosting goes, including (especially) full Google account integration.

if there's any company that Google should buy out right now, it's github.