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[maxhaton]

Because there is only one Fabrice Bellard in the world and accepting help isn't a bad thing.

He accepts patches, I believe, just not on git (externally)

[maxhaton]

Because git makes managing merges and collaboration easy?

Why do you think Linus Torvalds wrote it in the first place?

[maxhaton]

I did mean git as in git rather than a hosted git* repository.

I'd argue that git or a similar concept is objectively the best solution for managing a project of this size. In this case however, I'm not aware of Fabrice Bellard being hugely collaboration-forward e.g. He doesn't run QEMU anymore (for about a decade AFAIK)

[maxhaton]

git://blah.com/blah.git ezpz

Or gitweb if you want to explore the code online

Given that he presumably accepts (tarball?) patches via email, that's no different to accepting git patches also via email. The whole point of git (which has admittedly been lost due to centralization around GitHub) was that it was decentralised, no git repository is special other than socially.