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Re:Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control for static assets... by jbverschoor on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:38PM (#39909327)
Every clone in git is a branch. People like to enterprisify things, resulting in miserable people, wasted time, and money flowing into consulting firms.

Remember, git replaced tarballs

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Re:Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control for static assets... by jsunderland323 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:44PM (#39909402)
Exactly! This was actually Linus' point when he was explaining git to companies still on cvs. "You're all already using branches anyway".

I think if you're in a low-trust enterprise environment, branches kind of make sense because you get the additional scrutiny of code-review and merges occur on a centralized server but if you're in a four person team where you trust everyone just use the main branch and resolve locally.

> Remember, git replaced tarballs

I would refine that to say 3-way-merging replaced tarballs but yes!

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