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Google Adds Browser-Based Code Editor to Project Hosting

This week Google added a CodeMirror-powered code editor to Google Project Hosting. This enables developers to make quick changes to Google projects from within the browser without having to deal with Mercurial or Subversion.

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It previews the changes that you are about to commit and, for contributors without commit privileges, it can file changes as a patch in the project’s issue tracker.

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What do you think? Will this be useful? Should GitHub and other code hosts implement something like this?

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