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The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition) (lemmy.world)

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is this sarcasm about git/svn or are you serious?

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It was mostly a joke/irony.

Git is already a “distributed version control system” that does exactly what I’ve described. On the other hand, relying on centralized systems such as GitHub means that the “distributed” nature of it doesn’t make it any more resilient to failure.