> For its part, Git was designed specifically to make software development distributed without a centralized site.
Just yesterday I had to explain the basic premise/history of Git to a young intern. I had asked him if he was using Git to manage his little pet project the company gave him to play with. “No”, he replied, he didn’t know what the company’s policy was to posting code in public on GitHub. As I explained to him that “git init” was all he needed, no GitHub or even no repository on our local GitLab was necessary, his eyes grew wide: “But how does that work??”
I’ve had to explain this same thing to multiple novice devs of various ages. It baffles me. I consider it one of the greatest ironies of software development today.
It’s like explaining to people that they could just talk to each other using a thousand means, instead of having to communicate by netcasting at each other through some shared social media platform.
Just yesterday I had to explain the basic premise/history of Git to a young intern. I had asked him if he was using Git to manage his little pet project the company gave him to play with. “No”, he replied, he didn’t know what the company’s policy was to posting code in public on GitHub. As I explained to him that “git init” was all he needed, no GitHub or even no repository on our local GitLab was necessary, his eyes grew wide: “But how does that work??”
I’ve had to explain this same thing to multiple novice devs of various ages. It baffles me. I consider it one of the greatest ironies of software development today.
It’s like explaining to people that they could just talk to each other using a thousand means, instead of having to communicate by netcasting at each other through some shared social media platform.