The Rise of Git: Google Code Now Supports Git Repositories

On the 15th July 2011 Google Code announced (http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/07/google-git) its support for Git repositories.

Historically, Google Code offered support only for Subversion and Mercurial repositories and, ironically considering its use of Git for the Android Project, has appeared to be resistant to adopting for google.code. However it is suspected that the decision to “flip the switch” and support Git could be closely linked to the astronomical rise of github in recent years and the vast number of projects using github storage with Google Code issue trackers.

Although the specifics regarding the implementation back-end is unknown, the front-end effect is clear; with an existing Google Code project, you can now create a Git repository.

One Industry reviewer predicts this as the demise of Subversion support: It's unlikely that support for either Mercurial or Git will be dropped from Google Code in the future, but the days of SVN are likely to be numbered. The only major player whose future is bet on Hg is Bitbucket , who were acquired by Atlassian less than a year ago. The only significant player still using Mercurial is the OpenJDK forest at hg.java.net which is the development ecosystem that Sun initially set up.

Clearvision agree with the reviewer, that Google Code’s availability of Git repositories brings to light the overwhelming influence that Git is having on the industry and is likely to play a big part in a decision to use Git as the de-facto repository of choice for new and existing open-source projects.

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