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Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by jedimastert »

I'm a little confused. Isn't git already decentralized? Like, most of the time there one true repo everyone else grabs from, but it doesn't have to be. What am I missing?

Edit: oooooh, this takes the centralization away from GitHub. I feel like that's non obvious from the name, but I could be wrong.

Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by Tyr42 »

jedimastert wrote: post #2

I'm a little confused. Isn't git already decentralized? Like, most of the time there one true repo everyone else grabs from, but it doesn't have to be. What am I missing? Edit: oooooh, this takes the centralization away from Git Hub . I feel like that's non obvious from the name, but I could be wrong.

With three simple steps you can create a decentralized mirror of your existing github project. All changes will be automatically propogated to the mirror version and the git services you depend on will be there when you need them.

Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by cfstras »

The description says that my repo is uploaded to the "decentralized service Skynet" -- But I can't seem to figure out how one would participate in hosting this service. Does only Sia, the company, host nodes for Skynet? Or is this a plot to increase the visibility of Siacoin?

Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by zonotope »

jedimastert wrote: post #2

I'm a little confused. Isn't git already decentralized? Like, most of the time there one true repo everyone else grabs from, but it doesn't have to be. What am I missing? Edit: oooooh, this takes the centralization away from Git Hub . I feel like that's non obvious from the name, but I could be wrong.

git is decentralized, but most git remotes are not. This is a decentralized git remote that gets the best of both worlds. It's a _decentralized_ "one true repo".

Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

cfstras wrote: post #4

The description says that my repo is uploaded to the "decentralized service Skynet" -- But I can't seem to figure out how one would participate in hosting this service. Does only Sia, the company, host nodes for Skynet? Or is this a plot to increase the visibility of Siacoin?

It would be nice for Sia to be useful for something.

Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by cap10morgan »

cfstras wrote: post #4

The description says that my repo is uploaded to the "decentralized service Skynet" -- But I can't seem to figure out how one would participate in hosting this service. Does only Sia, the company, host nodes for Skynet? Or is this a plot to increase the visibility of Siacoin?

dgit dev here. Good question. For starters, dgit is not 100% tied to Sia, it's just a great decentralized file hosting service so we started with it as the first default.

But to answer your question, anyone can host Sia nodes. Here are their docs on that: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting

Re: Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

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Post by cfstras »

cap10morgan wrote: post #7
cfstras wrote: post #4

The description says that my repo is uploaded to the "decentralized service Skynet" -- But I can't seem to figure out how one would participate in hosting this service. Does only Sia, the company, host nodes for Skynet? Or is this a plot to increase the visibility of Siacoin?

dgit dev here. Good question. For starters, dgit is not 100% tied to Sia, it's just a great decentralized file hosting service so we started with it as the first default. But to answer your question, anyone can host Sia nodes. Here are their docs on that: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting

Thanks for the info.

Is there a simple way right now to use another storage backend than Sia? E.g. If I have a group of people that want to participate in hosting, but only want to host data from the people in the group?

Essentially, can you use dgit to store a repo decentralised without having to set up git synchronisation tools, but while still having control over the hosting infrastructure?

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