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I have faced the same problem numerous times. Sometimes the cs.opensource.google links work, sometimes they don't. I haven't yet bothered to try and understand why that's the case.

Why can't they use the github.com/golang/go link instead? (no pun, genuinely wondering)

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1. github.com/golang.go is just a mirror. The main Git repo is available via https://go.googlesource.com/go

2. GitHub.com is Microsoft infrastructure. cs.opensource.google is Google infrastructure.

I still wonder why there is both cs.opensource.google and go.googlesource.com.

Because GitHub is a mirror not the actual repo, I think I was around 2015 when Go was gaining massive attraction they had to use GitHub for issues also, still you can’t change the fact that more than 70% of commits is from google

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