[paulddraper]

> actual git workflow used by Linus for Linux

When I install Linux 2.4, that centralized version comes from somewhere.

I agree that svk could have made for a serviceable GitHub, but the fact that Git had such things natively supported is a big advantage.

[saurik]

Yes, and the centralized version comes from a tree that in the Linux workflow is only able to be modified by one person. You submit patches via email or pull requests (literal ones, to pull from a repository); you don't share commit bits on a centralized repository.