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Like I said, not anti-email. I don't see why it's git vs cvs:

> Recall that git was also designed to work over mailing lists. git format-patch, git apply, etc.

Right, and when you do web things with that same git in 2024, it looks and works like it's 2024.

You could use an old git server/file browser UI, or the built-in gitweb[0] for example, but you don't, you use something more modern & featureful, working better on mobile, looking prettier, etc. Even Linux (with its history intertwined with git) uses Github[1] as its mirror, not gitweb or anything looking like the link above for OpenBSD.

[0]: https://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/tree/HEAD:/gitweb/

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux



If it's something I work on habitually and keep clones of, I prefer to use gitk to browse a local repo over something like GitHub web ui. Maybe I've just gotten old though.


Sure, but you presumably don't put up a bad/old-looking web UI to not use as well? That was my point, given that it's hosted somewhere, why so poorly.




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