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Would the world be a better place if Google bought Gitlab?
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Google already tried doing code hosting once. It didn't work out.
https://code.google.com/archive/
Which they could have done a much better job with.
It was basically just hosted SVN if I remember right, and they never added git support when it became the de facto version control system.
Yeah, that's why it would be better for them to buy an existing solution. Google code looked bad, IIRC had some forced integration with google forums (or whatever they're called), and forced a google login. It didn't have a CI either. Gitlab has that and more.