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I know git claims to be decentralized, but has anybody ever actually managed to use it in a decentralized manner? Not even the git or Linux projects themselves are without a centralized sync point.

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Grandparent can still work off their local git repository, create local branches and commits, unlike the traditional VCS model which required branching and commits to be immediately synced to a centralized node.

The centralization issue that you raise is a different one; most projects intend to take contributions from folks and merge them into a single product.

Noted on the definition of the word “decentralized”, but the comment I was replying to was specifically about the ability to “send/receive code and patches”, that’s what I haven’t seen done without a central sync point.

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