Re: git peer-to-peer project: info needed

From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2010, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinjow-aRmNB7rSgq17ww00csN82tWBM+6Nv350k@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100830174506.GB9955@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com> wrote:

> On further review you seem to be talking more about making fetch itself
> peer-to-peer,

 only on the basis that that's what i believed would be a good start,
lacking any experience or advice :)

> where my patchset is more of a peer-to-peer branch-sharing
> mechanism.

 what's the difference?  i did look at making "blobs / trees"
available but i figured that that would just get you a snapshot (not
helpful).  i'm afraid i don't actually know the difference between
fetch sharing and branch sharing, as my knowledge of git internals is
a bit "swiss cheese".

> Complementary but not necessarily conflicting. Still I'll
> hurry up and get it online :)

 commented already.  was a bit of a bit message in the inbox, with an
inline thingy rather than attachment, but i'll cope.

l.