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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by omginternets on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:41AM (#20022099)
Tell me, how do you search and collaborate on code that's fully distributed (in the git sense)?
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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by cheschire on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:45AM (#20022146)
Git is not a search / discovery platform. Publish the same git repository to several platforms and you can collaborate in a distributed and decentralized way through each of those platforms.

Nothing stops you from publishing the same project to both github and gitlab.

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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by paranoidrobot on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:14AM (#20022359)
No, but it makes it more difficult.

Why would a project that's already happily working with the Github ecosystem want to also have to support publishing to a platform that doesn't block China? Lots more work on project maintainers.

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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by omginternets on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:19PM (#20024610)
>Git is not a search / discovery platform

Yes, that's very much my point - GitHub is.

To suggest that GitHub is somehow the same thing as git, but centralized (=> bad) is missing 99% of the value GitHub offers.

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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by suff on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:48AM (#20022163)
Answer that question and you might have a startup company...
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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by konart on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:37AM (#20022493)
My vote is for IRC
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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by omginternets on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:20PM (#20024618)
IRC is definitely not a good way of searching/discovering anything.
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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by konart on Monday May 27, 2019 @04:15PM (#20024968)
That's just your experience. Neither is github from mine.
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Re:Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them acces... by layoutIfNeeded on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:55AM (#20022216)
Mailing lists?
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