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Post by TZubiri »

bandrami wrote: post #12

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.

pretty cool that we have a distributed version control system but people still complain that the distributed version control system is not itself hosted on a public distributed version control system like a ouroubouros of transparency so transparent that you can't even see the thing and you lose it because you don't know where it is and you lose yourself in a maze of infinitely branching dependency tree of self hosted bug trackers and federated account systems so that you can keep track of your bug reports and compile the bug tracker from scratch and all of a sudden you are building linux and you want to report a linux bug, but you need to send an email so you build an HTTP server but you don't have a C compiler yet so you download the latest C source code, but you don't have a C compiler to compile it, so you just make a github account and learn to compromise on your ideals welcome to adulthood.

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Post by csomar »

bandrami wrote: post #12

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.

distributed # decentralized. The point of distributed is to keep a copy of your own. The point of decentralized is to not have a central point of authority.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by arp242 »

littlestymaar wrote: post #35
SCdF wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 dist…

> Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story That's what Github is though, it's not about the code itself it's about all your project management being on Github, and once you move it, moving out isn't realistic.

GitHub has a fairly extensive API without too many limits AFAIK. You can definitely migrate all your data to $something_else if you want to.

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Post by NexRebular »

bandrami wrote: post #12

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.

It really is a tragedy that git monoculture is winning over Mercurial, Fossil and other better designed alternatives. Don't even have a nice github-like service for Mercurial anymore as Bitbucket decided to give up.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by miyuru »

ghosty141 wrote: post #126
bandrami wrote: post #12

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.

I don't get this. Git is still distributed, even if the "main" repo is on github, everybody still has a local copy. You are confusing project management (which github effectively does) and git. Git is still git, github is just a project management tool with git integration. In the Linux kernel the project management is done via email (which is also just a centralized webserver in the end), so whats the problem?

The problem is lot of Dev tools has centralized on GitHub, so much so that we cannot use IPv6 only servers for development because GitHub does not support IPv6.

From what I use composer and brew relies on GitHub to work.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by Sander_Marechal »

SCdF wrote: post #26
bandrami wrote: post #12

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.

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 dist…

Gitlab is working on using ActivityPub for interoperability between instances. See: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/architectur...

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by [deleted] »

novaRom wrote: post #101
bandrami wrote: post #12

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.

Linus Torvalds is one of those people whos impact on the world is significant even if he was not driven by financial initiative. It’s crazy how much one person can change things just by solving their own problems really well.

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