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teddyh on Aug 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

If you want anything less centralized, then why are you using Github, a centralized interface to and storage of a previously inherently de-centralized system, git?

Github is for people who accept centralization.

bronson on Aug 6, 2015 [–]

That's not true. Why do you think github promotes forking and pull requests?

Some centralization is necessary, true, but you seem to be confusing GitHub with Google Code and SourceForge.

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