That does make sense. My European brain did not let me think about guns as something one can forget about owning at first.

Kind of like forgetting how many cars one owns.

Why… why do you not know how many guns you have?

Yes, this maximal decentralized usage where everybody has their own copy but can collaborate and pick and choose from other copies was a central idea in the creation of git. Ultimately it was made for Linux Kernel development and that is how that works over there.

You do not even need to use git specific protocols. One can simply import patch sets and mail them to each other.

Git was made to work decentralized and repositories are trivial to mirror.