Re: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1885890&cid=34358134

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2010, 20:19 UTC
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 20:06, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 18:33, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>> <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe it is important that git-over-p2p be given a higher
>>> priority than it is at present.
>>
>> We give "priority" to the stuff people submit patches for. There isn't
>> a git-over-p2p because nobody is working on it, would you like to work
>> on it?
>
>  i was / have been.  unfortunately it's unfunded work, and, thanks to
> receiving less money than i require for living and for feeding my
> family i now face a court hearing on 16th december (3 weeks time)
> which has the aim and ultimate goal of making us homeless.  i
> therefore respectfull request that you please don't try to make me
> feel like i _should_ be working on this in order to "earn your
> respect" ( that goes for you too, johnathon ).

I don't mean to discourage you. But as Jonathan points out this list is much better suited for submitting patches and discussing technical details.

I'd be happy to review your patches, I'm very interested in getting something like this myself. If you've been working on something I'd love to see it.

And I hope you'll do all-right in your personal life.

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>> I'm also not convinced that this is actually needed. It's trivial to
>> set up a p2p-like network by just emulating a darknet by manually
>> adding remotes & fetching/pushing.
>
>  ah.. but that's the single-use case for a single shared repository.
> git "as-is" the fetch/push over http is limited to a single
> repository.  i'm thinking more in terms of a global network, with
> searches for checksummed objects "accidentally" potentially coming
> from wildly different repositories.

Right, but is there an actual use case for people who are developing code to use something like git over p2p? Maybe I'm just being unimaginative, but I can't see a case where people are working on the same project and can't find a way to push/pull from each other using the existing methods. Especially since it's easy to sign up for free Git hosting and use something like Tor to pull/push from there. Or to set up your own git HTTP server on a Tor *.onion server.

But of course using the Git data format for non-source-code would be very interesting, and much better for something like git-p2p.

Anyway, sorry about the brief reply. I'm not really knowledgable about this, and didn't fully grok/read your reply (going out).