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Google Could Pick Git to Manage Android Code

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Stephen Shankland
May 26, 2008

“Releasing 8.6 million lines of source code and expecting
open-source programmers to join Google in its development is a
technological challenge.

“But when Google does make its Android mobile phone software an
open-source project later this year, it looks likely it will take a
page from the Linux playbook and use a tool called Git to manage
that part of the work…”

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