Re: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1885890&cid=34358134

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 20:06, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 18:33, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
[off-list ref] wrote:

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I believe it is important that git-over-p2p be given a higher
priority than it is at present.

We give "priority" to the stuff people submit patches for. There isn't
a git-over-p2p because nobody is working on it, would you like to work
on it?

 i was / have been.  unfortunately it's unfunded work, and, thanks to
receiving less money than i require for living and for feeding my
family i now face a court hearing on 16th december (3 weeks time)
which has the aim and ultimate goal of making us homeless.  i
therefore respectfull request that you please don't try to make me
feel like i _should_ be working on this in order to "earn your
respect" ( that goes for you too, johnathon ).

I don't mean to discourage you. But as Jonathan points out this list
is much better suited for submitting patches and discussing technical
details.

I'd be happy to review your patches, I'm very interested in getting
something like this myself. If you've been working on something I'd
love to see it.

And I hope you'll do all-right in your personal life.

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I'm also not convinced that this is actually needed. It's trivial to
set up a p2p-like network by just emulating a darknet by manually
adding remotes & fetching/pushing.

 ah.. but that's the single-use case for a single shared repository.
git "as-is" the fetch/push over http is limited to a single
repository.  i'm thinking more in terms of a global network, with
searches for checksummed objects "accidentally" potentially coming
from wildly different repositories.

Right, but is there an actual use case for people who are developing
code to use something like git over p2p? Maybe I'm just being
unimaginative, but I can't see a case where people are working on the
same project and can't find a way to push/pull from each other using
the existing methods. Especially since it's easy to sign up for free
Git hosting and use something like Tor to pull/push from there. Or to
set up your own git HTTP server on a Tor *.onion server.

But of course using the Git data format for non-source-code would be
very interesting, and much better for something like git-p2p.

Anyway, sorry about the brief reply. I'm not really knowledgable about
this, and didn't fully grok/read your reply (going out).