Entire Git Forge GitHub Rival Explained: Ex-GitHub CEO's Trails Replace Pull Requests, 89x Faster Pushes
Image: Wikimedia Commons / Markus Spiske, CC0 — Illustrative image: code on a developer's monitor. Entire's own interface screenshots are not freely licensed, so this is an illustrative photo, not a screenshot of Entire.
📌 KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Launched: 26 October 2026 — Entire's Git forge, from ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's startup, is available to any developer from today.
- The big change: "Trails" replace pull requests. Review agents score every push on quality, security and "slop", and code merges only when scores are stable, findings are closed and gates pass.
- Speed claim: Entire says its new Git-compatible server pushes up to 89x faster than GitHub and 6x faster than Cursor Origin — its own benchmarks, not independent tests.
- Where it runs: Native hosting live in the US, EU, Australia and India, with multi-region replication for data residency; GitHub mirroring and migration tools included.
- What is not ready yet: Public repositories and self-hosting are on the roadmap, not in this launch; no public pricing was announced in the launch materials.
What happened?
Entire, the startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, on Monday 26 October 2026 unveiled what it calls a Git forge — a service for hosting code, reviewing changes and running builds, the core of what GitHub does — pitched directly as an alternative to the company he used to run. Dohmke was GitHub's CEO for nearly four years before leaving last year, and Entire now has 50 employees working fully remotely from Bellevue, Washington.
The timing is pointed: the launch lands two days before GitHub's annual Universe conference in San Francisco. It also follows Entire's July 2026 launch, which only mirrored existing GitHub repositories over a faster network. This release goes further — developers can now host private repositories natively on Entire, keep mirroring GitHub, or migrate off it entirely.
Dohmke's argument is that the pull request, the standard way developers propose and review code changes for two decades, has broken under AI coding agents. "The pull request has become an audit log that only the agent reads," he wrote in Entire's launch post. "Code review was always a bottleneck," he said at a Madrona event last month, "and now that bottleneck is 10 times bigger." The numbers back the urgency: GitHub says developers and agents made 7.38 billion commits on its platform in September 2026 alone.
entire git forge github rival explained: Trails, distributed hosting and Continuous Memory
Entire is built on three primitives, and each one targets a different pain point of agent-written code:
1. The Trail — review by score, not by reading every line. In a classic pull request, comments stack up in a linear timeline and CI gives a pass/fail at the bottom. A Trail instead puts eval scores at the top of the page, recalculated on every push. Entire's pre-defined review agents cover code quality, security and "slop" (low-quality AI output), plus a "Human Review Required" eval; each agent runs in an isolated cloud sandbox and returns a score with a rationale, and the last five runs plus the current run are shown so teams can see whether scores are stabilising. A Trail can start from a bug report, a feature request or directly from an agent, and can span multiple repositories. Findings carry severity levels and stay visible until addressed or dismissed, and per-repo "Gates" can require a human sign-off and passing CI before anything merges.
2. Distributed Git hosting — built for agent traffic. Entire says it rebuilt the server side of Git with a new Git-compatible server, a distributed object store and a transactional ref database. Its open-source benchmarks put Entire at 418 pushes per second against 4.7 for GitHub, 65 for Cursor, 15 for Pierre and 10 for GitLab — the source of the "89x faster" headline. Treat that figure honestly: it is Entire's own benchmark, not an independent test. What is checkable is the product fact: repositories can be created natively, replicated across regions, or mirrored from GitHub, and if GitHub goes down, Entire keeps serving clones and fetches from the regional mirror while agents keep pushing to branches prefixed entire/unmirrored/.
3. Continuous Memory — so agents stop re-learning your codebase. Two open-source, local-first CLI plugins carry this: entire-graph maps the repository (ranked search, definitions, callers, types, routes and change impact with file-and-line locations, parsed locally with tree-sitter and no network calls), and entire-brain indexes past agent sessions and binds them to that map, so a new session inherits the "why" behind old decisions. Entire says the codebase map cut token use by up to 71% in its own testing — again, a vendor figure, not an independent measurement.
| Entire Git forge fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Launched | 26 October 2026 — available to any developer from today |
| Founder / CEO | Thomas Dohmke, GitHub CEO 2021–2025; 50 employees, fully remote |
| Replaces | Pull requests with Trails — agent-scored evals on every push |
| Review agents | Pre-defined quality, security and slop agents; Claude Code and Codex on Daytona and E2B sandboxes |
| Speed claim | Up to 89x faster pushes than GitHub; 6x faster than Cursor Origin (Entire's own benchmarks) |
| Regions live | US, EU, Australia, India — multi-region replication for data residency |
| CI partners | Buildkite and Depot at launch; GitHub Actions workflows migratable |
| Funding | $60 million seed round, February 2026 — Felicis led, with M12, Madrona and Basis Set |
| Not yet shipped | Public repositories and self-hosting are on the roadmap |
Image: Wikimedia Commons / Florian Hirzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0 — Illustrative image: a server room. This is not an Entire data centre; it illustrates the distributed-hosting idea behind the launch.
Why it matters for developers — including in India
Entire is not alone in deciding that GitHub's model needs rethinking for the agent era. Cursor launched its own code-hosting service, Origin, in August 2026, and Anthropic has described building its own source-control system as its merge volume exploded. Entire's bet is different in one respect: rather than bolting agent features onto the pull-request model, it replaces the review unit itself with a scoreboard, and the centralised server with a distributed one. If agent-written code keeps growing at the current pace, the team that makes review fast without making it reckless wins.
For India readers, two details matter most. First, India is one of the four launch regions, so Indian teams can host repositories in-region for data-residency requirements instead of routing everything through US or EU infrastructure. Second, the CI story is practical: Buildkite and Depot integrations ship at launch, and both offer migration commands (bk pipeline convert and depot ci migrate) that convert existing GitHub Actions workflows rather than forcing a rewrite. The honest caveats matter too: the speed and token-saving figures are Entire's own, public repos and self-hosting are not here yet, and no public pricing appeared in the launch materials.
Should you care?
✅ Verdict: Yes, if you lead a team where agents already write a large share of code — Trails are the first serious attempt to replace the pull request rather than patch it, and the India-region hosting plus GitHub mirroring make it cheap to try without leaving GitHub. ⏳ Wait and watch if: you are a solo developer or a small team — the pain Entire solves (review bottlenecks at agent scale) may not be your pain yet, and public repos and self-hosting are still on the roadmap. 🔍 Watch out: the "89x faster" and "71% fewer tokens" figures are Entire's own benchmarks, not independent tests, and merging on agent scores alone is only as safe as the evals behind them.
FAQs
What is Entire's Git forge? Entire's Git forge is a code-hosting, review and build platform launched on 26 October 2026 by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's startup, Entire. It is designed for teams where AI coding agents produce code faster than humans can review it, and it is pitched as an alternative to GitHub.
What are Trails and how do they replace pull requests? Trails are Entire's replacement for pull requests. Instead of a linear timeline of comments, a Trail shows agent-calculated eval scores at the top of the page on every push — covering code quality, security and "slop" — plus open findings with severity levels. Code merges only when scores are stable, findings are closed and any configured gates, such as human approval and passing CI, are satisfied.
Is Entire really 89 times faster than GitHub? That figure comes from Entire's own open-source benchmarks, which report 418 pushes per second for Entire against 4.7 for GitHub. It has not been independently verified, so treat it as a vendor claim about its new Git-compatible server architecture rather than a measured fact about your workflow.
Can I move my code from GitHub to Entire? Yes, in three ways: keep GitHub as the source of truth and mirror repositories to Entire, detach a US mirror to go Entire-native, or migrate directly with Entire's entire-migrate plugin or a plain fetch-and-push. GitHub Actions workflows can be converted for Buildkite or Depot CI instead of rewritten.
Is Entire available in India, and what does it cost? Entire is live in India as one of its four launch regions (US, EU, Australia and India), so Indian teams can host repositories in-region. No public pricing was announced in the launch materials, so costs for teams are still undisclosed — the forge itself is available to any developer from today.
Takeaway: Entire is betting that the pull request cannot survive the age of agent-written code — and with Trails, distributed hosting and Continuous Memory, it has built the most complete alternative yet. Whether developers trust agent scores enough to merge on them is the question GitHub Universe will now have to answer.
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Sources
1. Entire (PRIMARY) — "The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration", 26 October 2026: https://entire.com/blog/the-git-forge-for-agent-human-collaboration
2. GeekWire — "Former GitHub CEO launches rival platform built for AI coding agents", 26 October 2026: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-github-ceo-launches-rival-platform-built-for-ai-coding-agents/
3. RuntimeWire — "Entire launches an agent-first Git forge with automated review gates", 26 October 2026: https://runtimewire.com/article/entire-agent-first-git-forge-thomas-dohmke
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