Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

 if microsoft can add ncacn_http to MSRPC for the exact same sorts of
reasons, and even skype likewise provides a user-config option to
specify "port 80" or port "3128", then it's perfectly possible to do
likewise. ncacn_http actually has HTTP 1.1 headers on it, and, once
you've negotiated enough to look like HTTP, the raw socket is hander
over to MSRPC for it to play with.

i described those in prior messages. to summarise: they're basically reduction of dependence on centralised infrastructure, and to allow developers to carry on doing code-sprints using bugtrackers, wikis and anything else that can be "git-able" as its back-end, _even_ in the cases where there is little or absolutely no bandwidth... and _still_ sync up globally once any one of the developers gets back online.

 so i'm _not_ just thinking of the "code, code, code" scenario, and
i'm not just thinking in terms of the single developer "i code,
therefore i am" scenario.  i'm thinking of scenarios which increase
the productivity of collaborative development even in the face of
unreliable or non-existent connectivity [carrier pigeons...]

l.