Re: Truly decentralised use of git?

> 2009/7/14 Kārlis Repsons <karlis.repsons@gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> > git is just great with its possibility of decentralised using, but how
> > can it be done, given, that participants are all across the internet?
> > IPv6? How is it done with kernel?
>
> I don't think "truly decentralised" is what you want[1]. For me, truly
> decentralised is when all the repositories are equal, and in
> particular there is no central repository to sync with.
>
> Normally there is a "social" central repository, be it controlled by
> one person (like the linux kernel) or by multiple people (like the
> gnome git repositories). It does not mean it is not decentralised,
> many people can (and do) have repositories spread across the internet
> and the central repository can be moved from one place to another.
>
> In a "truly decentralised" setup, every repository can sync any other
> repository. So you just provide a public repository and sync with the
> rest of repositories. It does not scale with a large number of
> repositories, so it is easier just to declare some of the repositories
> as central (like the Linus' repository and the subsystem
> repositories).
>
> In the linux kernel setup, there is a central repository, Linus'
> repository, with its public repository at kernel.org, and the
> subsystem repositories (x86, mm, usb,...) normally at kernel.org but
> they can be anywhere else. Everybody syncs with Linus' repository, and
> when you work in a specific subsystem you sync with the central one
> and/or the subsystem repository.
>
> HTH,
> Santi