Git doesn't even need to be "hosted" anywhere. That's the point of it being distributed. What needs to be hosted somewhere are all the barnacles (like issue tracking, code reviewing, CI, and so on) that have grown out around git, that people and businesses have become dependent on.

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thayne 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It doesn't have to be. But without a hosted "source of truth", it's kinda hard to actually distribute it, and have a way to accept pull/merge requests/patches.

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jayd16 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LFS files sorta do need to be hosted. At least, it exists because full clones are untenable for many projects.

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seanc 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is why they cleverly moved the central story of a software change from the commit to the PR. Commits migrate automatically with the repo. But migrating PR descriptions and comments takes engineering effort.

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kortex 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Rhetorically, why can't folks add the feature of PRs to Git? Git is fundamentally just a graph manipulation engine and data structure. It would just be another object type, in a layer which sits above the normal commit graph. Obviously there is no "just make X" in software, but this feels reasonably achievable, and would have tremendous benefit for the cost.

	▲	pwdisswordfishq an hour ago \| parent [-]
		https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull