[javiramos]

I had already forgotten about the blockchain

[_heimdall]

git still works pretty well, I just wouldn't try to use it as a bank account.

[sham1]

Well, Git's also not a blockchain at least in the way commonly meant by the term. But yeah, it'd be a pretty bad bank account (and an even worse way of doing money transfers.)

[lagniappe]

Git is by the literal definition a blockchain.

[turkey99]

Seems a bit of a stretch. Git is not linear, and there’s no consensus mechanisms

[_heimdall]

git is linear, if multiple users have a different main branch history you have a problem.

Pull requests in github is actually very similar conceptually to a consensus mechanism used in crypto currencies. Everyone has an identical copy of the main branch with an identical history of every commit in order, a PR is saying "I think this commit goes next" and, if you use code reviews, the PR approval is consensus.

[bugbuddy]

This is the most unhinged thing I have ever read about git ever. Please share whatever you are hitting.

Have you ever seen a git graph? Does this look linear? https://tortoisegit.org/docs/tortoisegit/images/RevisionGrap...

[_heimdall]

No idea why this got down voted.

git is very much a blockchain

- sequential list of changes to a data source (commits)

- single, shared history of changes (main branch)

- users creating potential next change(s) to be added to the history (side branches and forks)

- consensus mechanism for new change blocks (merge requests and code reviews or approvals)

What's missing?

[hitsurume]

Receiving a coin / token everytime someone gets their branch merged? This is a joke btw, please don't make a gitcoin YC....

[freemoney99]

git blockchains are famous for being easy to fork (-;

[Log_out_]

You can fork a blockchain by building a ecosystem with a different consensus.

[_heimdall]

Any blockchain is easy to fork, just have a fully copy of the chain and make a new block.