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Re: encrypted repositories? with git-torrent?

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MAMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 20, 2009, 12:13 UTC
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Am 18.07.2009, 21:09 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>:
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> Wouldn't this be a use case for git-torrent?
> http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/
> http://repo.or.cz/w/VCS-Git-Torrent.git
>
> As I understand it, all data would be stored decentraliced and the  
> (optional?) central server only saves, who has which objects.

I wonder about latency and accessibility here if clients are disconnected. Seems this is more for transferring repositories to large numbers of customers as sort of content distribution network for high load, rather than low connectivity - and the latter is my prime concern and also a detail of my scenario.

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Matthias Andree
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