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Similar to Gitchain http://gitchain.org/ ?
Yeah! I was a Gitchain backer. The difference is that Gitchain stored the actual git commits in the blockchain, and I leave the actual commits on the hard disks of each BitTorrent seeder.
> There are philosophical reasons, too: GitHub is closed source, so we can’t make it better ourselves. There is GitLab.
> There are philosophical reasons, too: GitHub is closed source, so we can’t make it better ourselves. There is GitLab.
GitLab CEO here, thanks for mentioning us as the open source alternative. We think in the short term multiple organizations hosting their own GitLab is the way to go. It is hard to do issues and pull/merge requests in a decentralized way (the OP is impressive but it shows distributed git instead of distributed GitHub). I would like to see federated merge requests http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/sugge…
That should be possible via browser support for site-based URL handlers; for browsers without such support, you could also have a URL on the main GitLab site that people can register with to redirect to their "home" instance.
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Hi, author here. I have a mild bias against altcoins, and have heard bad things about Namecoin in particular: that the anti-spam incentives aren't good, leading to illegal files stored in the blockchain itself, and that there's no compact representation (like Bitcoin's Simplified Payment Verification) for determining whether a claimed name is valid without consulting a full history. As I understand it, these two desi…
The notion that a file can be illegal makes as much sense to the internet as a plant being illegal makes to the earth. Especially when it has the side effect of inhibiting what otherwise might be a compelling solution.
Also: some plants are serious jerks.
Can I clone GitTorrent with GitTorrent?
npm install gittorrent
git clone gittorrent://github.com/cjb/gittorrent
Or for true decentralization (doesn't get the wanted sha1 from github.com):
gittorrent://81e24205d4bac8496d3e13282c90ead5045f09ea/gittorrent
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