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Sounds like a design flaw... adding a centralized database to augment a decentralized version control system.

Comments, issues, pull requests, wiki, etc... should all be first class Git objects. I should be able to create pull requests while offline and push them up when I'm back online.

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Issues can be in dvcs with something like BugsEveryehere.

Git has native "pull requests" it's just not web based, it's email based.

A good wiki is markdown docs in a git/hg repo and something like Gollum to serve web viewers.

So - in a way those things can all be handled as regular content in git/hg.

I would rather baseline git be light and barebones - all the extra stuff is nice to have from a provider, but being part of git itself would make it bloat out.

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