From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:04:52 GMT Subject: Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works! Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: > So people who are willing to participate as part of the peer2peer > network can download the instructions for how to make the > canonical pack once a month, and use it to create the canonical pack. yes. also it's already becoming clear that people mayy need to run a "front" copy of the peertopeer git repository, to which they locally perform "git push", for various reasons including not wishing to expose "random experimentation commits" out onto the wider internet until they're actually ready to do so. i realise that merging can get round this (flattening many patches into one big commit) but there is also the issue of having to run a daemon on the peertopeer repo - you miiight not want to interfere with that. so, yes, running a "special" git repo is probably a good idea. thanks theo. l.