alt Hacker NewsThe whole point of git is to be decentralized so there is no reason for you to not have your current version available even when a remote is offline.
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dandellion • yesterday at 3:12 PM
It's also trivial to have multiple remotes, I do in most of my repos. When one has issues I just push to the other instead of both.
ragall • yesterday at 10:24 PM
The original intent of the authors is by now irrelevant. The current "point" of git is that it's the most used version control solution, with good tooling support from third parties. Nothing more. And most people prefer to use it in a centralised fashion.
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How do people even on hacker news of all places conflate git with a code hosting platform all the time? Codeberg, GitHub or whatever are for tracking issues, running CI, hosting builds, and much more.
The idea that you shouldn't need a code hosting platform because git is decentralized is so out of place that it is genuinely puzzling how often it pops up.