please look into gittorrent

[Thomas Lord]

Please look into gittorrent.  While there are still important (at least
to my mind) gaps between git and Arch (things missing from the former
that are at least pointed out by the latter) nevertheless gittorrent
looks initially like an important development that helps narrow the gap.
I wanted to go someplace similar with GNU Arch.

Arch does better than git in taxonimizing versioned objects and in its
management of coding history, branching, merging, etc.... but Arch
shares with gittorrent this idea of distributed, decentralized revision
control -- free software source code should be just sort of "floating"
on a meta-net, on the Internet, over a P2P layer -- just so.  This is a
political goal because of the "decentralization" part.

We also have a lot of work to do on the economics of the emerging
ecosystem of free software source code and because economics "wants" to
be "transactional" -- and because of the nature of the natural unit of a
"transaction" in software source code development and support -- the
economics of how free software can be a career and the formality imposed
by a global-scale, distributed, decentralized revision control system
are closely intertwined.  Issuing a "commit" command should be an
economically significant act -- a "transaction" in both senses of the
word.

But that's a larger, future topic, for now.   For now: please do look
into gittorrent and share your impressions.  Have they actually made
progress on distributed, decentralized revision control?  Are their
politics in order?

Thanks,
-t




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[Andy Tai]

http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Lord <lord@...> wrote:

Please look into gittorrent. 

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[Matthew Hannigan]

lkcl's overview and related:
    GitTorrent, The Movie
    http://www.advogato.org/article/994.html

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:50:41PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote:

> http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Lord <lord@...> wrote:
>
> > Please look into gittorrent.
> >
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[Peter Conrad]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008 schrieb Thomas Lord:
>
> Arch does better than git in taxonimizing versioned objects and in its
> management of coding history, branching, merging, etc.... but Arch
> shares with gittorrent this idea of distributed, decentralized revision
> control -- free software source code should be just sort of "floating"
> on a meta-net, on the Internet, over a P2P layer -- just so.  This is a
> political goal because of the "decentralization" part.

I tried something like that back in the days of "larch".

http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/Archives/DSDiF/index.html

Basically, the idea was to host larch archives within freenet.
The proof-of-concept worked, but then tla was born, and somehow
the project fell asleep...

The only thing that's really needed for hosting arch archives
in freenet is an efficient way to mirror local archives into
freenet and vice versa.

Bye,
        Peter
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