Re: URI Scheme for git object ids?

From: Ed Warnicke <hagbard@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2022, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFVSqg3i_ANc1sTmEHaxjxxdkkN9HbUEUwejV5S5V5tM2fhWWA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20220301175334.ctem25nxckynnvco@meerkat.local>

Konstantin,

I suspect you read a bit more into my question than I intended :) I do appreciate the breadth of your thought about it though :)

Mostly, I'm just looking for a way to express the git object id as a uri scheme so completely outside-of-git things can refer to it clearly (ie, know to prepend the object header before hashing to see if the contents match).

Definitely not thinking of any vaguely web3 ideas :)

Ed

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:53 AM Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:35:52AM -0600, Ed Warnicke wrote:
> > Has there been any discussion of how one might represent a git object
> > id as a urn or uri?
>
> This sounds similar to what git over ipfs folks wanted to do, but they ran
> into obvious scaling problems. It works fine for small repositories with a few
> dozen commits, but once we're talking millions, the process of doing anything
> with such remote starts taking hours and days.
>
> If you're interested in a decentralized forge solution, then Radicle has the
> closest to something that is working. You just have to ignore all the crazy
> cryptoblarf web3 stuff.
>
> -K