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Color me a little disappointed that this article wasn't about the fact that GitHub's roaring success has watered down everyone's enthusiasm for git's decentrali
by tmcw 16y ago
Color me a little disappointed that this article wasn't about the fact that GitHub's roaring success has watered down everyone's enthusiasm for git's decentralized model. People keep asking you to use GitHub, in part, because they aren't setting up their own git servers, although they could - and one could argue that the future's a little safer with people keeping a bit of control.
- steveklabnik 16y agoEven if you use GitHub, you're still decentralized.
- gte910h 16y agoIf you've ever run your own git server (and I do), you have to pretty much setup something like gitosis or other solutions to manage the new projects....or you have to ssh in to make new projects. I see absolutely no more than an afternoon's work to take people's work and move to a completely different remote central repo if github were to vanish from the internet one day. The central node is a lot easier. git is not a source control system. It is a system for making a source control system. For many people, the centralized system is great.