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Re: URI Scheme for git object ids?

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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
Mar 1, 2022, 17:53 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:35:52AM -0600, Ed Warnicke wrote:
> Has there been any discussion of how one might represent a git object
> id as a urn or uri?

This sounds similar to what git over ipfs folks wanted to do, but they ran into obvious scaling problems. It works fine for small repositories with a few dozen commits, but once we're talking millions, the process of doing anything with such remote starts taking hours and days.

If you're interested in a decentralized forge solution, then Radicle has the closest to something that is working. You just have to ignore all the crazy cryptoblarf web3 stuff.

-K
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