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0 pointscollyw11y ago0 comments

Yes, but I would guess that non distributed would suit 90% of use cases. I imagine most software is still developed in one physical location.

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eropple11y ago

Your imagination ignores days where you WFH (like I am right now), it ignores remote workers, it ignores work while traveling, it ignores outsourcing, it ignores open source development.

But who cares, because Git or Mercurial can be used in a centralized manner if you want. But it doesn't have to be. That's why it's good.

gnaritas11y ago

He's not ignoring anything; he said non-distributed would handle 90% of use cases and that's probably somewhat true. Saying hey I'm one of those 10% isn't a rebuttal to what he said.

eropple11y ago

I definitely want to see some substantiation that everything I just enumerated is less than 10% of software development, by whatever metrics he wants: number of projects, lines of code, whatever.

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eropple11y ago

Your imagination ignores days where you WFH (like I am right now), it ignores remote workers, it ignores work while traveling, it ignores outsourcing, it ignores open source development.

But who cares, because Git or Mercurial can be used in a centralized manner if you want. But it doesn't have to be. That's why it's good.

gnaritas11y ago

He's not ignoring anything; he said non-distributed would handle 90% of use cases and that's probably somewhat true. Saying hey I'm one of those 10% isn't a rebuttal to what he said.

eropple11y ago

I definitely want to see some substantiation that everything I just enumerated is less than 10% of software development, by whatever metrics he wants: number of projects, lines of code, whatever.

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