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> What's amazing is that you can also use git locally, without a server, using "git daemon".

I don’t think that’s amazing. What was amazing to me was back when I couldn’t set up a Subversion repository without a “server”.

Someone asks on StackOverflow about why `git push` behaves a certain way? The principle of Laziness dictates that you try to reproduce the issue with two sibling directories where one is a remote of the other one. Like they apparently do in one of Git’s integration tests:

    git remote add $1 up ../mirror

You can run a Subversion repository on localhost with the svnserve(1) command:

https://www.visualsvn.com/support/svnbook/ref/svnserve/re/

Yes, another kind of server.

But does it matter? Nowadays even my editor wants to run a server in the background to provide syntax highlighting. People generally don't seem to care and see it as progress.

But what about the price of tea in China? The language servers you refer to provide a decoupled service to other programs. It has literally nothing to do with the fact that I have to (apparently—why would I even use SVN in this day and age) make a dummy repository somewhere hither or tither just so that I can version control my local-only dotfiles!

Or in serverless mode without any server at all. Just open the repository via file://.

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