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minus-squaredudeface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·19 days agoGit is meant to be decentralised
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 days agoYeah, but it needs a address to point to, to work with others repositories. Which with http is centralized. Wouldn’t be with a distributed protocol.
minus-squaredudeface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·19 days agoI don’t think you know how git works
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-219 days agoI do know that it keeps a local copy of the repo. But it’s not designed to work with a pool, so it needs a specific address to work together/clone/share repos. I’m by no means an expert in git, did i overlook something?
minus-squareAnafabula@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·18 days agoTechnically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though
Git is meant to be decentralised
And it is.
Github isn’t.
Yeah, but it needs a address to point to, to work with others repositories. Which with http is centralized. Wouldn’t be with a distributed protocol.
I don’t think you know how git works
I do know that it keeps a local copy of the repo. But it’s not designed to work with a pool, so it needs a specific address to work together/clone/share repos.
I’m by no means an expert in git, did i overlook something?
Technically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though