Google Has Quietly Launched a GitHub Competitor, Cloud Source Repositories

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Google hasn’t announced it yet, but the company earlier this year started offering free beta access to Cloud Source Repositories, a new service for storing and editing code on the ever-expanding Google Cloud Platform.

It won’t be easy for Google to quickly steal business from source code repository hosting companies like GitHub and Atlassian (with Bitbucket). And sure enough, Google is taking a gradual approach with the new service: It can serve as a “remote†for Git repositories sitting elsewhere on the Internet or locally.

Read more at VentureBeat.