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Same with the account creation on normal git websites. You fill out three fields and click a link in your email, it's no more complex than git send-email.

I'm sure I can figure out the archaic git email system, how hard can it possibly be? Same with the git bundle thing, this is the first time I've read about it but it seems usable. I don't expect anyone I'll ever directly work with to know what the hell a bundle file is but if a project wants their git commits in that format, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. The biggest hurdle will probably be spam filters, but that's an email problem and not necessarily a git problem.

Or course the downside to all this funky command line stuff is that you're applying a filter on the people who will ever contribute code. Plenty of people don't want to figure out the git's many weird command line flows and communication options. Plenty of developers don't care enough to actually learn about git beyond push/pull/rebase/merge. If you're only interested in the turbo nerds who enjoy using the many tricks git has to offer, you'll probably filter out most contributors, but realistically how many contributors does hobby project on a personal git server ever attract in the first place.




These deep thoughts would almost be slightly interesting except for a kind of big elephant that you somehow missed:

He's not writing about how you should run your project for his convenience.


> He's not writing about how you should run your project for his convenience.

No, but we can discuss and criticize policies all the same, regardless of how the original creator feels about such discourse.


That filter may be the advantage, but Mr. Tatham is just too polite to say that aloud.




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