Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2010, 20:47 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimhCi2vWWnHGwT5ToRtFbjkxTgVYVvYLR3UCb2S@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3tym5mfce.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Luke, you don't have to be peer-to-peer to be decentralized and
> distributed.  People from what I understand bitch most about
> centralized (and closed) services.

i've covered this in the FAQ i wrote:

FAQ:

Q: is git a "distributed source control system"?
A: yeees, but the "distribution" part has to be done the hard way,
   by setting up servers, forcing developers and users to configure
   git to use those [single-point-of-failure] servers.  so it's
   "more correct" to say that git is a "distributable" source control
   system.

so if you believe that git is "distributed" just because people can set up a server.... mmm :) i'd say that your administrative and technical skills are way above the average persons' capabilities. proper peer-to-peer networking infrastructure takes care of things like firewall-busting, by using UPnP automatically, as part of the infrastructure.

come on, people - _think_. we're so used to being able to run our own infrastructure and workaround problems or server down-time, but most people still use "winzip", if they have any kind of revision control _at all_.

l.