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posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the versionctlâ €-altâ €-del dept.

[Update 20180604 @ 14:00 UTC: Acquisition confirmed. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock. Coverage at Microsoft, Security Week, The Register, and The Verge. Also, see the Microsoft blog post. --martyb]

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.

Time to move off GitHub?

Previously: Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github

An AC also submitted Bloomberg's article.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday June 04 2018, @02:15PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @02:15PM (#688362) Journal

    Maybe Microsoft wants GitHub as a reliable back end for Team Foundation Server. But TFS seems more akin to SVN than to Git. Of course, that won't stop Microsoft from trying to copy (poorly) or acquire something and bolt it together with their own crapware. With a heaping helping of proprietary goodness!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @02:30PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 04 2018, @02:30PM (#688372)

    We were using git on TFS a couple of years ago, and have since migrated to git on VSTS (TFS in the cloud) - it's still git, you can use it from command line like real git, VS has attempted to put a VS face on it which sort of hides git, but it's still not 100% of the git cli functionality.

    The microsofties bitched about how it wasn't the latest flavor of MS source control with shelf sets and whatever for about a year after the transition to git, but I think they've finally come to the understanding that: yes, you can screw up in git and make work for yourself, but it's no different from the screwups and work needed in other source control systems, and that git is actually easier/faster than most of them in significant ways.

    Our repo-access speed took a hit when TFS moved to VSTS in the cloud, but not by enough to matter, and the great thing is that we have a local mirror of the repo that's just about zero effort to maintain and solves all kinds of firewall/access issues while also being local-net speed instead of cloud-speed.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 04 2018, @02:33PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday June 04 2018, @02:33PM (#688375) Journal

    But TFS seems more akin to SVN than to Git.

    Don't worry. They'll fix that during the "Extend" phase.