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by eru 1058 days ago
I think mostly it will depend on what we will call the replacement to git. We might end up calling it 'git', too.

Less weirdly: ethernet has been replaced a few times already, but they always just end up branding the replacement as a new version of 'ethernet'.
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sanderjd 1058 days ago
I think this is a great point! What even is "git"? If it's the binary program named "git", then there are already lots of replacements for that binary that people use, and it would not be surprising at all if one of those different frontends becomes more dominant than "git" itself.

But if "git" is the protocol, the specification of how a particular construction of a database of versions, then I suspect that will be pretty sticky. I'm sure it isn't the optimal solution but it works well and it's very useful to have a lingua franca for this.

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londons_explore 1058 days ago
Old versions of the git binary are incompatible with new versions.

I suspect everything about git is the ship of Theseus

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bombcar 1058 days ago
Many of those variations of ethernet remain compatible, 10g switches can often negotiate down to 10/100.
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eru 1058 days ago
Yes. And the replacement to git might also stay compatible.

(In an extreme case, git can talk svn via git-svn. In a weird alternative history, you could imagine git being treated as a new version of svn; but apart from the names, nothing much else would change compared to our universe.)

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yardie 1058 days ago
I’ve worked with many switches. I have not encountered a 10g switch that will negotiate to 10m. 100m is not automatic in most cases. These very old protocols are very different from modern 10g-100g. So much so that the transceivers may need to load a completely different firmware to even understand it.
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bombcar 1058 days ago
100g may be too high, but my micro tick does fine: https://mikrotik.com/product/s_rj10

(I’ve not seen 100g over copper, but 10g is doable)

I don’t know if it will go down to half duplex.

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yardie 1058 days ago
Ok. Most of my experience the switches will have 2 modes for each port: 1G/2.5G/10G/25G/100G or 10M/100M/1G/2.5G. This is typical for datacenter switches. Found this out when my trusty 10/100M USB dongle couldn't establish link. I needed to upgrade to a 1G USB3 dongle.
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bombcar 1058 days ago
Now I want a datacenter switch with a gearshift for speeds, "high", "low" and "turbo" perhaps.
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toast0 1058 days ago
Half duplex is in spec at 100 as well as 10, so I'd be surprised if it didn't.
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