Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

peer-to-peer is beautiful concept but note that git is already distributed VCS. you can have many remotes and mirrors. Just that p2p is not necessary here in git and using Radicle doesn't free my Code.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#5

Post by meibo » Sat, Dec 05, 2020, 9:51 AM UTC

Why do I have to give them my email to even download the client? Is this a product or not?

Sure sounds nice though, hope it turns out. Hope they are considering a web frontend for the network as well.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#6

Post by adsweedler » Sat, Dec 05, 2020, 9:51 AM UTC

"Work securely offline"

Is... is that a problem with GitHub that stops you from doing that?

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#7

Post by dweberz » Sat, Dec 05, 2020, 9:52 AM UTC

meibo wrote: post #5

Why do I have to give them my email to even download the client? Is this a product or not? Sure sounds nice though, hope it turns out. Hope they are considering a web frontend for the network as well.

you don't need to give your email to download the client no.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#8

Post by rudolfs » Sat, Dec 05, 2020, 9:54 AM UTC

dweberz wrote: post #7

meibo wrote: post #5

Why do I have to give them my email to even download the client? Is this a product or not? Sure sounds nice though, hope it turns out. Hope they are considering a web frontend for the network as well.

you don't need to give your email to download the client no.

https://radicle.xyz/downloads.html

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#9

Post by half-kh-hacker » Sat, Dec 05, 2020, 9:55 AM UTC

varbhat wrote: post #4

I don't understand how using Radicle will free my code as they say in the site. So,how is using Radicle better than: 1. main repo on https://github.com 2. mirror repo on https://repo.or.cz 3. mirror repo on https://codeberg.org 4. local backup on my device and hard-disk. peer-to-peer is beautiful concept but note that git is already distributed VCS. you can have many remotes and mirrors. Just that p2p is not necessar…

If your main repo lives on GitHub, your (primary) issue tracking is tied to GitHub.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#10

Post by fireattack » Sat, Dec 05, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

This doesn't look like "alternative to GitHub" to me; you don't need to download any client to use GitHub and having a nice web interface is one of the most defining feature of GitHub.