Re:Kactus: Design version control without changing tools
by alkonaut on Saturday February 24, 2018 @06:17PM
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You lock it in one central repository. There is typically a blessed repository somewhere, at least in every single project I have seen.
I know of no one and no project that uses the bare git in a truly distributed sense that isn’t just one central repo with multiple users, or in rare cases a hierarchy of repos such as the Linux kernel.
This is also why the github/lab style services are so popular - it’s what people need. But I don’t think that’s a reason to keep this feature away from git itself. I don’t think many want to have to use github just to get this one feature, and as I said, for any repo hosting binary content (common) and using one or more central blessed repos (nearly universal) - it’s very hard to live without.
I know of no one and no project that uses the bare git in a truly distributed sense that isn’t just one central repo with multiple users, or in rare cases a hierarchy of repos such as the Linux kernel.
This is also why the github/lab style services are so popular - it’s what people need. But I don’t think that’s a reason to keep this feature away from git itself. I don’t think many want to have to use github just to get this one feature, and as I said, for any repo hosting binary content (common) and using one or more central blessed repos (nearly universal) - it’s very hard to live without.