(wow, distributed!)
With the ultimate irony that people largely use it in a centralized fashion.
With the ultimate irony that people largely use it in a centralized fashion.
DNS is distributed, yet it has a "root" servers.
Even if there a master repository in a given git scenario, it is still distributed because developers have their own repositories, which are independent, and contain a replica of the copies of the upstream objects.
The Linux kernel is a proper example of distributed workflow.
Even if you consider the SPOF-y nature of something like GitHub, more savvy git users will realize that if GitHub was down for an extended period of time, they could push their repo somewhere else that's public, like Bitbucket, or their own server, and keep working and allowing other people to collaborate. And for shorter downtime of the central server (where you might feel like setting up an alternate is too much effort), everyone can still get work done, they just can't collaborate as effectively until things are restored.