I already spoke at length about how a large minority of the git community uses email for collaboration
Surely that minority are working on quite a large project. Ahh:
Using email for git scales extremely well. The canonical project, of course, is the Linux kernel. A change is made to the Linux kernel an average of 7 times per hour, constantly. It is maintained by dozens of veritable clans of software engineers hacking on dozens of modules, and email allows these changes to efficiently flow code throughout the system. Without email, Linux’s maintenance model would be impossible. It’s worth noting that git was designed for maintaining Linux, of course.
As it turns out, that canonical project is both quite large and invented the bloody thing in the first place (as mentioned in the prior article).
I couldn’t tell whether you intended this comment as support or to discount Linux’s use, but as another data point, PostgreSQL uses git and email in a similar fashion.
Surely that minority are working on quite a large project. Ahh:
Using email for git scales extremely well. The canonical project, of course, is the Linux kernel. A change is made to the Linux kernel an average of 7 times per hour, constantly. It is maintained by dozens of veritable clans of software engineers hacking on dozens of modules, and email allows these changes to efficiently flow code throughout the system. Without email, Linux’s maintenance model would be impossible. It’s worth noting that git was designed for maintaining Linux, of course.
As it turns out, that canonical project is both quite large and invented the bloody thing in the first place (as mentioned in the prior article).