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Re: git peer-to-peer project: info needed

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2010, 22:06 UTC
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<20100829220654.GH1890@burratino>
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Hi Luke,
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> i need some guidance on what i should be doing, to add peer-to-peer
> networking to "git fetch".  i can take care of the peer-to-peer
> networking side: the bit i'm unsure about is what sequence of events
> are required to happen.

Not sure if this is the best answer or not, but you might enjoy looking at the git-remote-helpers(7) feature and git-remote-testgit.py example.

Also, in case it is useful: the old scripted "git fetch" is available as contrib/examples/git-fetch.sh.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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