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Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by influx on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:56AM (#19389217)
No, his design goal was to create a vcs for the Linux kernel. Frankly most people use git like svn version 2, completely skipping the distributed parts of it.

Git actually doesn’t scale to really huge monorepos.

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Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by Deganta on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:12AM (#19389920)
That's because most users don't actually need the distributed part of git. For most projects the sanest solution is to have a single master repository that all users pull/push from/to.

IMHO the only real advantages over SVN for most users are the better branch/merge functions.

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Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by jancsika on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:04PM (#19392411)
In other words-- git is so good at being decentralized you only notice the consequences in the improved branch/merge UX.
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Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by cabalamat on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:44PM (#19395062)
> his design goal was to create a vcs for the Linux kernel

Which is a largish piece of software.

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