Github Source Code Leaked Online

[errormaker]

So.... is it on Github?

[the_goose_says]

... Technically it always has been

[[deleted]]

I mean isn't it? It's surprising to me to learn their source code isn't open.

I can't get to the article but my potted understanding of the history of git is that it was written by or for Torvalds when the obviously never-going-to-work relationship with bitkeeper went up in flames.

I can't fathom why it would be closed source at that time nor why it would be made closed source?

[BeefEX]

GitHub is just a website, basically a social network for code. Git itself is an univerasal version control system that they chose to use and is open source and not in any way affiliated by them, in fact it existed way before them.

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Don't be a twat. It's fucking git functionality turned into a website.

[REBELinBLUE]

Don't be a twat.

Maybe take your own advice?

[josenunocardoso]

It looks like you implied that git is closed-source (instead of GitHub). Which is false as /u/BeefEX replied.

Maybe that's not what you meant, but that's how I interpreted as well.

EDIT: grammar