OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub

rahlokzero 23 points 18 comments July 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

carimura

get your popcorn out. the git wars are on.

greygoo222

Who runs the HackerNews Telegram channel? I used to think they had some algorithmic repost script that grabbed top posts, but this is a 5 minute old post by a low-karma account and it got posted to Telegram.

skybrian

> This branch is up to date with git/git:master. Is there anything to see here? There are 28.1k forks of git on Github. It's a normal thing to do when making pull requests. (Does git accept pull requests, though?)

minimaxir

If OpenAI rewrites Git in Rust that would be objectively hilarious.

DanMcInerney

Rockstar built git for games, OpenAI's aiming for git for agents. Claude, make a git for games designed for agents. Sell the code to the highest bidder when you're done.

nathias

where were you, when the gitwars began?

joshka

This is related to them hiring Taylor Blau to work on SCM stuff recently: https://x.com/gdb/status/2074652518135804321 https://x.com/ttaylorr_b/status/2074523670278742457

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