When I first started at my current job some twelve years ago we would git pull from each other's machines directly. Everyone working on master, no pull requests

When I first started at my current job some twelve years ago we would git pull from each other's machines directly. Everyone working on master, no pull requests, no definite HEAD. Real Wild West. Worked ok with a small tightly knit team. That didn't last long though, we migrated to a central server with a bare git repo over SSH, and from there to a self hosted internally developed system, to self hosted Gitlab, eventually landing on just standard GitHub. It's been a ride. The dream of truly decentralized VC is nice, and it's actually somewhat workable, but the downsides are many.