Tell me more. When is the D relevant? When is it super critical?
Working offline is distinct from distributed. In practice almost all development is defacto centralized on GitHub (or other central host).
> In software development, distributed version control (also known as distributed revision control) is a form of version control in which the complete codebase, including its full history, is mirrored on every developer's computer.
That’s a super mega anti-feature to me. Git still sucks for large binary files which is an insane limitation.
Yes, most development is de-facto centralized on GitHub/GitLab/SourceHut/BitBucket/etc.
The Linux kernel is not, and Git was designed by the creator of the Linux kernel to serve the needs of the Linux kernel developer community. And I am certain they are not the only ones with that workflow.
Git makes fundamental design choices that are (maybe possibly but not necessarily) good for the Linux kernel. They’re objectively bad and problematic for the majority of dev work. Which makes it really fucking shitty that the industry standardized on a tool that is bad for standard workflows.
