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

From: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2010, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20100830174506.GB9955@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100830173905.GA9955@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:39:07PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:56:27PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > hi folks,
> > 
> > [please could you kindly cc on responses because i am subscribed with
> > "no mail" set]
> > 
> > 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.  i'm presently looking at the use of
> > walker_fetch in builtin-http-fetch.c which gives me some idea.
> > however as i aim to implement this first in python not c, i need to be
> > using git via command-line only.
> > 
> 
> I have a peer-to-peer git patchset that I'm already working on, which is
> nearly in a showable state. I've wanted to sand off a few more edges
> before a public review but I'll happily share it.
> 
> --CJD

On further review you seem to be talking more about making fetch itself peer-to-peer, where my patchset is more of a peer-to-peer branch-sharing mechanism. Complementary but not necessarily conflicting. Still I'll hurry up and get it online :)

--CJD