<p>Can someone explain why these two repositories exist at the same time?</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/bitcoin</a>
<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-core" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/bitcoin-core</a></p>
<p>It is a bit confusing for a newcomer to the codebase what to actually trust.
Furthermore, is there some good intro somewhere that explains how access to this repository is managed? Like who can become eligible to approve merge requests and for what reasons could this right be stripped from a person again.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>

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2024-04-13T16:20:24.787Z
For the merge access part/maintainers see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/119316/who-approves-the-merger-of-github-pull-requests-to-the-bitcoin-core-master-branc
Michael Folkson
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2024-04-14T10:17:39.957Z
Thank you very much! That answers my questions!
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Why is there a separate bitcoin and bitcoin-core GitHub repo?
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# Why is there a separate bitcoin and bitcoin-core GitHub repo?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-13)

Can someone explain why these two repositories exist at the same time?

<https://github.com/bitcoin>
<https://github.com/bitcoin-core>

It is a bit confusing for a newcomer to the codebase what to actually trust.
Furthermore, is there some good intro somewhere that explains how access to this repository is managed? Like who can become eligible to approve merge requests and for what reasons could this right be stripped from a person again.

Thanks a lot!

**Tags:** bitcoin-core-development

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: For the merge access part/maintainers see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/119316/who-approves-the-merger-of-github-pull-requests-to-the-bitcoin-core-master-branc  
> **username_0**: Thank you very much! That answers my questions!  

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