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fifjcj38384 • today at 3:58 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

it’s pretty ironic we got all the complexity of distributed source control with all of the drawbacks of centralisation


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locknitpicker • today at 10:42 AM

I don't think this is ironic at all. The source control system is decentralized, in the sense that you can checkout a repo and use it as the central source or truth for everything.

For example, you can clone a repo from GitHub into your workstation,and then clone that repo into multiple folders in your workstation where you unleash agents to implement changes. The you pull those changes to your local repo or even directly to GitHub or GitLab or whatever. That's pretty decentralized.

Now, compare this to the god awful mess that was subversion.