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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.