Microsoft hosts the Windows source in a monstrous 300GB Git repository

Enlarge (credit: Git) Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows. Traditionally, Microsoft’s software has used a version control system called Source Depot. This is proprietary and internal to Microsoft; it’s believed to be a customized […]