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		jherdman on Aug 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Decentralization of _why's Projects Not really. A Git repo isn't really beholden to any other repo. Some are considered definitive, but truly they can all stand on equal footing.

litewulf on Aug 30, 2009 [–]

While this is true, look at the difficulty people had in reconstructing his work from github. People may have clones of the repo, but maybe not with all of his latest commits.

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