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848 points thefilmore | 1 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bandrami ◴[13 May 25 06:03 UTC] No.43969975[source]▶
Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.
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moralestapia ◴[13 May 25 06:07 UTC] No.43969999[source]▶
Care to explain?
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joha4270 ◴[13 May 25 06:09 UTC] No.43970011[source]▶
If GitHub went down, how much would it impact the open source world?

Sure, there would be local copies everywhere, but for a distribution version control system, it's pretty centralized at GitHub

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kgeist ◴[13 May 25 06:20 UTC] No.43970061[source]▶
If GitHub went down, the code would be fine (just announce a new official URL), but the main thing that would be lost is issues and pull requests. Maybe Git should add official support for issues and pull requests in its metadata to be fully decentralized.
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1. nurumaik ◴[13 May 25 06:49 UTC] No.43970188{3}[source]▶
Fully decentralized metadata so we can finally have merge conflicts in PR comments while discussing merge conflicts