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What do you even mean? Github made a decentralized service a centralized one by encapsulating it. This “impact” isn’t the fault of Git at all.

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That's why he said that Git's feature set doesn't go far enough. Most projects need an issue tracker and a tool for discussing proposed changes. These things are out of scope for Git, but since people needed them, they congregated around a centralised service that builds around it. Of course, decentralised alternatives for issue tracking and pull requests exist, too.

This is why Linus uses email. It’s the Unix way — Git is just another tool. It doesn’t need to be a website, and an issue tracker, and a change proposal database, and version control software, and a social media website, and pull request tracker. It just needs to be a version control software with some decentralization.

If todays developers were tasked to build the World Wide Web again, we would all log into some oAuth portal.

It is the fault of Git because it doesn't take it whole way. If the things I need to work are centralised then Git is not doing everything it should.

For comparison, check Fossil - https://www.fossil-scm.org/

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