On: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

[amelius]

I'm wondering if github and gitlab implemented their own version of git under the hood, or if they just use the vanilla git everyone else uses on their server.

[lbo1 → amelius]

AFAIK github implemented Libgit2 (or are at least a major contributor), which is an independent implementation. Am on mobile, so sorry for lack of sources.

[sytse → lbo1]

With GitLab we sometimes shell out to git and we're using more and more Rugged https://github.com/libgit2/rugged, a ruby library that calls out to libgit2. For more information on our git calls see https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell