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

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 29, 2010, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTiksxy5xJiw+T37KTaCV0s6OU7KbQhgQSo=tQi7_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1291025571.4262.21.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 21:19 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> 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.
>
> To me, the use-case wouldn't be because I /can't/ use existing methods,
> it's because I /don't want to/ use existing methods :)
> p2p tends to imply:
>  ..
>  - Downloads from multiple sources at the same time

I would add "automatically" and it's a real case for me. I work on the same project on different machines (each of them has different resources that I need from time to time). So I clone to all the machines. If I make a fix in one machine, other machines should automatically fetch it. It's like a private p2p network with a single user. If I add another machine to the network, all nodes should be aware of it, without me doing "git remote add" on each node.

-- 
Duy