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"Git is already decentralized" Decentralized is a big word. Git never tackled the decentralized aspect, being served over a master-slave protocol like HTTP me
by zoobab 1y ago
"Git is already decentralized"
Decentralized is a big word.
Git never tackled the decentralized aspect, being served over a master-slave protocol like HTTP means you have a tendency to centralize it again.
- drob518 1y agoGit was really useful because it allowed decentralization but didn’t require it like CVS or SVN. It catered to the “just clone the repo and create a new branch when you hop on the airline and push updates to origin when you land” model. But it’s really unusual that people really want a hugely distributed model. Typically, people want to go to The Blessed Repo and get The Blessed Code. For example, Linus’s got kernel tree is more important than everyone else’s clone.