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848 points thefilmore | 3 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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SCdF ◴[13 May 25 06:11 UTC] No.43970018[source]▶
I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back.

Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by distributed git either. (though I would love a good issue tracking system that is done entirely inside git)

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frizlab ◴[13 May 25 06:47 UTC] No.43970180[source]▶
Like fossil?
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1. kaichanvong ◴[13 May 25 07:44 UTC] No.43970516[source]▶
while --it-is possible seeing how fossil confuses, for the Github conversation, it's not really in the same category, conversation, some clever happenings happening within fossil-scm, however, it's not really the same as the problem design-led github solves given people saying downtimes; sure, git, github; however how people using github, different–similar, git, however, github.

However, were you to say liken-able (slang keywords: comparative something else--) of, "fossil with git-github", then again: no.

Good call were the conversation (comments, almost interchangeable at-times haha!) being, everyone use git for Firefox, something kinda wild-topic!

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2. frizlab ◴[13 May 25 14:02 UTC] No.43973099[source]▶
I don’t get any of that. I tried, but no, it just makes no sense.
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3. kaichanvong ◴[13 May 25 16:39 UTC] No.43974827[source]▶
;( I feel for you, hopefully–you can get more out from things in the future.