• Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      Git is not a blockchain. Most importantly, it’s not distributed. There’s a singular git server that all git clients for that repository connect to and use as a source of truth.

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        6 months ago

        That is patently false. It was developed to help develop the Linux kernel, which famously has multiple decentralized repositories managed by different maintainers.

        The fact that most companies use it in a way you describe, with only one central repository, does not mean that git is not distributed.

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          6 months ago

          For each project there is one authoritative instance, one “server” that everyone pushes to. Otherwise you get chaos.

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            6 months ago

            That may be how you use it, but that’s not baked into git. See my previous response. There’s a bunch of FUD in this thread for some reason.

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            6 months ago

            And nobody ever forked a project, and lived happily ever after, then end.

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              6 months ago

              If you want to work with the original project, you have to push to the server that controls the original project.

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                No you don’t, you can just fork it, add a commit, and walk away, and everyone can decide which one they want to clone

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            That’s not a git thing though. You can totally have multiple remotes and the remotes are just git repositories themselves. Git is 100% decentralized. There is technically nothing stopping you from having multiple remotes.