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> git’s distributed nature makes it easy for not just multiple developers, but multiple organizations to collaborate on a single project. Git is as "distribute
by lxe 4y ago
> git’s distributed nature makes it easy for not just multiple developers, but multiple organizations to collaborate on a single project.
Git is as "distributed" as Ethereum at this point. You have a central repo on github onto which you push changes. Just because you have a copy of the main branch when you're working on stuff, it's no different from SVN.
Yes it has the capability to be distributed, and individual contributors can certainly host their own git servers and you can have as many remotes as there are contributors, but we aren't doing things this way are we?
- simonw 4y agoI think the point here is that you ARE doing things that way if you are multiple companies collaborating on something at the scale of WebKit.
- ipaddr 4y agoYou are seeing the tip of the iceburg. The most discoverable online platform is github and others exist at much smaller numbers. Because these are public they are easy to see and count. Private instances are hidden by default which makes them hard to count.
- samatman 4y agoThis is the kind of thing you say when you've never worked with a centralized version control system before, because if you had, you wouldn't.