Why are many programmers moving their code to github?

Posted by Chibueze Opata on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Chibueze Opata
Published on 2012-09-12T10:27:59Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 15:49 UTC
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For the past 6 months or more, I've been seeing many codes hosted at sourceforge.net as well as other hosting sites "Move to GitHub". A mere Google Search with the phrase "Moved to Github" returns several results containing the text moved to github. This is very confusing for me, and I'm wondering, why exactly are people moving? Does it mean that GitHub is better or is there some special advantage I'm not seeing?

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