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Re: [RFC/WIP] range-diff: show old/new blob OIDs in comments

From
EWEric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date
Oct 25, 2019, 00:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20191025001254.GA29496@dcvr>
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >> Instead, we will have to rely on your centralized, non-distributed
> > >> service...
> > >
> > > I'm curious how you came to believe that, since that's the
> > > opposite of what public-inbox has always been intended to be.
> >
> > I think the (mis)perception comes from the fact that the website and
> > the newsfeed you give are both too easy to use and directly attract
> > end users, instead of enticing them to keep their own mirrors for
> > offline use.
> >
> > Thanks for injecting dose of sanity.
> 
> Maybe your dose of sanity can inject a statement about the case when
> public-inbox.org/git differs from a mirror, and not in a
> fast-forwardable way? What is the authoritative source of truth, then?

Why does authoritative source of truth matter? My anti-authoritarian ethos is what drew me to DVCS in the first place.

If senders want to attest to the integrity of their messages; they can sign, and/or publish a copy/log of their sent messages on their homepage/social media/whatever. That's up to THEM, not anybody else.

If somebody wants to fork public-inbox.org/git and run public-inbox-watch from their own Maildir, they're more than welcome to.

If somebody wants to write their own importers since they don't like the code I write, they are more than welcome to. There's already mail-archive.com, marc.info, news.gmane.org (which public-inbox.org/git forked from) and some others.

Going farther, if people want to fork entire mailing lists and communities, they should be able to do so. I don't like mail subscriber lists being centralized on any host, either.

I have never, ever asked anybody to trust me or public-inbox; in fact, I've stated the opposite and will continue to do so.

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Message 7 of 9 in “[RFC/WIP] range-diff: show old/new blob OIDs in comments”
  1. Eric WongOct 17, 2019
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 22, 2019
  3. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 22, 2019
  4. Eric WongOct 23, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2019
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 24, 2019
  7. Eric WongOct 25, 2019
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 25, 2019
  9. Eric WongOct 23, 2019

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