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Any reasons (beyond PR) that these highlights are posted on the blog of GitHub instead of on the main website of Git itself?

Sadly, even Google is so confused about Git VS GitHub that searching for "git blog" shows github.blog as the first result...

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>Any reasons (beyond PR) that these highlights are posted on the blog of GitHub instead of on the main website of Git itself?

Probably the most obvious reason is that author Taylor Blau is employed by Github. If Github funds his work on Git, it doesn't seem strange at all that he posts on his employer's website.

Also, if you're referring to "git-scm.com" as the "main website of Git", there may be practical reasons such as TB not having any authoring privileges there to write a blog type of post. I notice that Git contributor Junio C Hamano who wrote the Git release notes doesn't post blog articles there either. JCH's blog-style posts seem to be at a different url: https://git-blame.blogspot.com/

You didn't ask but a related question people wonder about is why HN users (such as ossusermivami in this thread's case) submit Github links more often than the Git mailing list release notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207811

> but a related question people wonder about is why HN users (such as ossusermivami in this thread's case) submit Github links more often than the Git mailing list release notes:

I'd wager because it's more discoverable, more readable and contains very useful layman-readable explanations of what is going on in this release

that's correct :) It's much easier to follow by RSS the GH blogs than following the ML. And even if I was following it, it's not very trivial to find the mailing list archive html url (and I use Gnus to read mailing list)

Because this is a blog post by GitHub about the new release of Git, not in any way associated with the Git project.

The Git project itself posts release notes, but those are more abbreviated and aimed at a audience that's a bit more familiar with Git's workings: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentati...

Because they are written by a GitHub employee. If there were equivalent posts on the Git website, one could argue that we should link to those instead, but it is GitHub who writes and publish these posts and even if they are a form of PR, they are informative nevertheless.

That's what happens when the github blog consistently puts out better content than the git blog.

> Sadly, even Google is so confused about Git VS GitHub that searching for "git blog" shows github.blog as the first result...

Does https://git-scm.com/ even have a blog? I don't think Google is confused, it's just trying to give you the most relevant results.

These threads always have a comment about the Git/Github distinction.

You seem a bit confused yourself. GitHub and Git are different entities. So this is like asking why the New York Times is commenting on the price of tea in China—why shouldn’t they comment on it?

If you want the news straight from the source (without nice HTML markup): https://marc.info/?l=git&m=164305383314846&w=2

Same reason as every other time such a post has elicited such a “this is a PR stunt by GitHub” comment.

Obviously because GitHub (i.e. Microsoft) wants to pretend that they are the Git project, with all the goodwill that entails. Most people already think that Git and GitHub are the same, so it only takes little things like this to reinforce it over time.

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