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Re:GitHub Is Down by toastal on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:54PM (#46950202)
Being snapshot-based. Git has some issues being distributed in practice since the patch order matter which means you basically need to have some centralized authoritative server in most cases with more than 2 folks to resolve the order of patches for meaningful uses as the hash is used in so many contexts.
Re:GitHub Is Down by ajross on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:41PM (#46950920)
That's... literally what a merge collision is. The tooling for that predates git by decades. The solutions are all varying levels of non-trivial and involve tradeoffs, but none of them require 24/7 cloud service availability.
Re:GitHub Is Down by toastal on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:04PM (#46965115)
Using a Patch Theory-based option like Darcs or Pijul exist today & don’t have the tradeoff while also working offline.