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I think it's just a simple reality that most projects don't actually need or want a decentralized development process. In my experience, most projects are look

I think it's just a simple reality that most projects don't actually need or want a decentralized development process. In my experience, most projects are looking for a single, high-reliability canonical source that is in control of project leadership. Most projects are only developed by a small group, maybe even only one person.

meepmorp 1y ago
Yeah, I think what people really liked about git (vs many other VCSs at the time) was cheap and easy local branching, not the distributed nature.
- tracker1 1y ago
  I think the distributed support is pretty nice for easy-ish mirroring. Even to a relatively bare git+ssh target on a self-hosted server. No specialized services required. I mean, just for VCS.
- keybored 1y ago
  Local and distributed is the same difference to me compared to subversion.
keybored 1y ago
^ Comment on the Nth 100+ GitHub Down thread (every thread is like that). Maybe everyone here is just using it as an excuse to chatter about forges or GitHub being down too much etc. and it has no impact. But if it does and people are honestly fretting they can mirror their repos. Then no one needs to worry that much (except for their cursed CI setups) the next time it happens. And that’s a benefit of peer-to-peer repos right there.
- metalliqaz 1y ago
  github is more than just the repo, though. Issue tracking, releases, doc hosting, CI, pull reviews, and so on.
  - keybored 1y ago
    You claimed that most projects don’t want/need decentralized development and I gave you an example of how mirroring can make a project more robust. You’re welcome.