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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by yakubin on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:00PM (#24507083)
CLI or not, it's centralized/siloed all the same. I'm sticking to Git.
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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by londons_explore on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:14PM (#24510047)
It would be really nice if the other features of github could get into the decentralized model of git... I could imagine issues and PR reviews/comments all being mini-commits to some kind of parallel metadata repo under the hood for example.
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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by viraptor on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:32PM (#24511667)
Have a look at fossil https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Or maybe git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

And recently discussed here https://radicle.xyz/

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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by jackac on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:18PM (#24511560)
There are some experimental tools for distributed code review and issues.

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

Would be nice to have something more polished though.

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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by pferde on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:18AM (#24515340)
Just make ForgeFed a reality, and then it won't really matter where the project is hosted. :)

https://forgefed.peers.community/

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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by trilinearnz on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:46PM (#24510875)
Good point.

It never seemed like the distributed "selling point" of Git (and Mercurial et al) really caught on. I remember trying to extoll it's virtues to our team at the time (pre-Github). No one source of truth as such, just everyone swapping changes as needed. It's kind of ironic that Git's most popular incarnation is based upon a centralised model.

Is it just a case of the distributed workflow just not being that useful for most people? Beyond the obvious example of Linux kernel development, of course!

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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by brundolf on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:49PM (#24512125)
I think in practice it's most useful as a recovery feature. I once got locked out of my Bitbucket account and had to recover a repo, which I'd been paid to develop, from Heroku of all places. I was extremely grateful at that point that all git repos are complete mirrors of each other.
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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by matkoniecz on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:26AM (#24513933)
It is also useful that you have full access to repo when internet is unavailable.
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Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 by int_19h on Friday September 18, 2020 @04:08AM (#24514187)
Distributed workflow is still plenty useful, but the master copy being hosted by GitHub doesn't really affect it all that much. The real benefit was the ability to clone a repo and just start working on it locally - with commit history, branches etc - and then tidying it up and merging it back upstream when possible and convenient.

Are people forgetting what life was like back in SVN days, when not having a connection to the server meant not being able to do many operations?

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