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It is good to see that a company can accept that there is a better tool, github.

I remember when I thought sourceforge was so good. Now I silently weep when I need to go there for anything.

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Git is not Github. They are moving to Git but it's hosted on Google, not Github.

And since git is distributed it can be hosted on both, and already is https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror

What is the advantage of having a mirror?

Aren't mirrors going to be slightly out of date (unless continually synchronised). And you wouldn't commit to the mirror, right?

I can't speak for everyone, but I appreciate the mirrors because I enjoy reading and searching through codebases on Github, so having the repository mirrored there is useful.

If you look below the repository title on GitHub, it says "mirrored from..". This means GitHub handles the synchronization (they set this up on request for some projects).

For me the advantage is being able to use GitHub's nice UI to browse the source code.

Github has some nice features that chromium.googlesource.com lacks, like being able to list all of the commits that have changed files in a specific sub directory.

Synchronising a mirror automatically is pretty trivial so I imagine they're usually pretty up to date.

> Github has some nice features that chromium.googlesource.com lacks, like being able to list all of the commits that have changed files in a specific sub directory.

fwiw you can do this on chromium.googlesource.com as well. look for link called `[path history]` when navigating the tree.

Thx ;)

So https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror

They have a mirror and it appears that they are killing Google Code and I get 4 down votes NICE

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