It’s been a long time coming, but Google Code has finally added support for the wildly popular Git version control system. Git is a distributed version control system used by many popular projects including the Linux kernel, Ruby on Rails and Android.
Google Code, which offers free public hosting for collaborative software projects, started life as an SVN-based host and later added support for Mercurial. Google Code’s lack of Git support helped drive the meteoric rise of GitHub, one of the most popular places to host Git-based projects on the web today.
Now Google Code can compete with GitHub. But, thanks to GitHub’s slick interface and well-thought out features, Google Code seems unlikely to lure many away from their existing GitHub hosting. Still, if you’re a Google Code fan, but want to use Git, well, now you can.
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