[OutOfHere]

You clearly haven't worked much with code over many years. When laptops change, not all existing projects get checked out.

In fact, in VSCode, one can use a project without cloning and checking it out at all.

[Dylan16807]

Honestly I'm just really wondering what the odds are. In particular for code that made it onto git.

[OutOfHere]

Over the long term, the odds reach 100% that it won't be checked out. That's because people mostly only work on newer projects. As for mature older projects, even if they're running in production, cease to see many/any updates, and so they don't get cloned on to newer laptops. This doesn't mean that the older projects are now less important, because if they ever need to be re-deployed to production, only the source code will allow it.

[CRConrad]

> In particular for code that made it onto git.

By “onto git”, do you mean “onto GitHub”? I really wish people would stop conflating the two.

In fact, I can't tell whether this confusion is just another symptom of, or a (major?) part of the reason for, why we're in the mess we're in.

[Dylan16807]

I do not mean that, and I was not conflating anything.

Just making and committing to a repo at all is a step that implies a certain level of caretaking.