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Comment by JoshTriplett

9 days ago

No. Git is not a web-based GUI capable of managing users and permissions, facilitating the creation and management of repositories, handling pull requests, handling comments and communication, doing CI, or a variety of other tasks that sites like Codeberg and Forgejo and GitLab and GitHub do. If you don't want those things, that's fine, but that isn't an argument that git subsumes them.

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shakna  9 days ago

Git was published with compatibility with a federated system supporting almost all of that out of the box - email.

Sure, the world has pretty much decided it hates the protocol. However, people _were_ doing all of that.

  • JoshTriplett  9 days ago

    People were doing that by using additional tools on top of git, not via git alone. I intentionally only listed things that git doesn't do.

    There's not much point in observing "but you could have done those things with email!". We could have done them with tarballs before git existed, too, if we built sufficient additional tooling atop them. That doesn't mean we have the functionality of current forges in a federated model, yet.