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0 pointsGroxx1y ago0 comments

That's the same as not having one.

Otherwise you can claim Facebook is distributed because you can email people links to Facebook pages.

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> That's the same as not having one.

That's the way the Linux kernel (the first Git repository) and Git [2] itself manage their codes. There's even a git send-email command, that prepare the commits as patches and send them following the using the correct template.

[1] Linux kernel, IIO subsystem: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/

[2] Git mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/git/

GroxxOP1y ago

I agree that Git has more of a claim to this than Facebook, but that's kinda like saying a turtle is more of a car than a banana is a car.

Like, yes, it's true. Unlike a banana, turtles have 4 movement-enabling things, they use them to move mostly forward and backwards and not sideways, and other things can ride on them. It's probably more of a car. But it's not a car.

Git has no issue tracker. It's really not a controversial statement. The git community has common practices using something else to work around that, but if that's all you need to say "therefore git has X" then you can claim git has a CI framework because everyone and their dog uses GitHub. Which also has email integrations.

confooseddd1y ago

A CI infra just needs to communicate. It can communicate over email, like it does for the kernel.

A bug tracker is just assorted communication. One can easily build it over email.

You're just indulging in hyperbole for the sake of it. Nobody said git has an issue tracker in it.

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TZubiri1y ago

But git has built in email features

And it was developed itself by email.

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