[Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

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    Stephen> This won't be pleasant if people are sprinting and lots of
    Stephen> commits are coming, because you're likely to repeatedly lose
    Stephen> the push race.  But in those conditions, nothing is guaranteed
    Stephen> to work in decentralized fashion (that's one reason why the
    Stephen> Linux kernel uses Linus and lieutenants as a serialization
    Stephen> mechanism).

So DVCS scales up to a point, then it breaks and you need to revert to some
sort of serialization scheme?

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