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by YetAnotherNick 2242 days ago
What is distributed here? If github is down no one can see what you changed, not even the build servers. Git is distributed in the sense that every client has complete history, but not in the sense that my laptop can act as replacement of github(like torrent).
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chrisseaton 2242 days ago
Git supports lots of protocols for sharing your changes - even email!
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YetAnotherNick 2242 days ago
Diffs can be shared over mail, right. Can I do a `git pull` via mail?
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ddevault 2242 days ago
Yes:

https://git-send-email.io

You can also do a "request pull" over email, which if it sounds confusing it's because GitHub wanted it to:

https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull

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chrisseaton 2242 days ago
You can't over mail. But each of you could run your own Git server if you wanted to be able to pull.
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IshKebab 2242 days ago
Git is distributed in the sense that you have a copy of the source code and can make commits. Compare this to what would happen if an SVN server went down.
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YetAnotherNick 2242 days ago
Even in SVN there is a copy of the current code everywhere. Just that it does not support having multiple repos and all which I don't think many people uses in git. Most orgs only have one remote repo setup(I would love to be wrong in this)
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