Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub through the end of 2025, is launching a distributed Git network with his startup, Entire. It is designed to handle the flood of traffic from coding agents that is pushing centralized platforms like GitHub to their limits. Users can now mirror their repositories on Entire.
According to Dohmke, Git was always intended to be a decentralized system. After all, every clone contains a complete copy of the repository and its history. In practice, however, Git hosting directed developers toward centralized platforms built for a human pace: clone once, work locally, and push occasionally.
That model no longer seems viable, now that agents are firing off thousands of concurrent requests per second. These requests hit rate limits and expose vulnerabilities. In August 2025, Dohmke announced he was leaving GitHub to start his own company. Entire is the result.
Mirroring instead of replacing
The code remains on GitHub as usual. Coding agents then retrieve the data from a regional Entire node that absorbs the heavy, concurrent read traffic. This allows agents to clone quickly without hitting the limits of the origin repository. Branches based on GitHub are pushed as quickly as GitHub allows, but Entire also offers its own branches that can handle much more concurrency.
Entire runs nodes in multiple regions and jurisdictions. Users can pin their data to a single region or spread it across regions for added redundancy. The service is launching in the U.S., the EU, and Australia. New users will be placed on a waitlist for the time being. For benchmarking, the company released ForgeMark, an open-source tool licensed under the MIT license.
Competition for developers
Entire targets fleets of coding agents and, according to the company, integrates with all major players, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. In February, the startup raised a $60 million seed round at a $300 million valuation.
Other parties are also seeking alternatives to centralized hosting. For example, OpenAI is working on its own code platform following a series of outages that temporarily made GitHub inaccessible to engineers. In the coming months, Entire plans to decentralize the network, make it open source, and add self-hosting capabilities.