[bloak]

Meanwhile, other people trust git so much that they treat it more as a tool for doing an incremental back-up than as a distributed VCS (git commit -a -m x && git push).

I must admit I have occasionally used git as a tool for transferring files (https://xkcd.com/949/).

[Joker_vD]

I am actually doing exactly that to manage my personal KeyPass database, down to using "x" as the commit message; it works reasonably well since GitHub allows you to download files with just HTTPS.