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Git is not a blockchain. Most importantly, it's not distributed. There's a singular git server that all git clients for that repository connect to and use as a source of truth.
Counterpoint: it is a chain and there absolutely is not one server.
For each project there is one authoritative instance, one "server" that everyone pushes to. Otherwise you get chaos.
That may be how you use it, but that's not baked into git. See my previous response. There's a bunch of FUD in this thread for some reason.
People want simple answers, and "blockchain bad" seems to satisfy many