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by mrep 2841 days ago
Running your own email server is definitely not "easier" if you are actually trying to maintain any durability and availability SLA's with your average homeowners computer/storage/network.

And sure, you can use git by itself and send the diffs to each other over email. However, then you have to deal with coordinating where the head is which is a pain across every node since it is constantly changing. Thus, most people don't do it that way and instead use a centralized service like github.
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erikb 2839 days ago
> you can use git by itself and send the diffs to each other over email

Why not send it via ssh? It's much easier. And if the data is not too big you don't send diffs but complete file states. Git usually calculates the diffs on the fly by comparing two file states.

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mrep 2839 days ago
I was just giving an example because I think I remember hearing that linux exchanged a lot of their patches over email which is what partly inspired linus to make git the way it is. I'm not really sure of all the different ways you can use it because my teams have always used central repositories.
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