From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Koch Subject: Re: encrypted repositories? with git-torrent? Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:09:30 +0200 Message-ID: <200907182109.31275.thomas@koch.ro> References: Reply-To: thomas@koch.ro Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Tapsell , Matthias Andree , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 18 21:09:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSFIC-00072E-6i for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:09:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752272AbZGRTJq (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:09:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751397AbZGRTJp (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:09:45 -0400 Received: from koch.ro ([93.90.184.107]:49484 "EHLO ve825703057.providerbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751371AbZGRTJp (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:09:45 -0400 Received: from 4-186.0-85.cust.bluewin.ch ([85.0.186.4] helo=jona.localnet) by ve825703057.providerbox.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MSFHt-0001SP-Co; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:09:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-1-amd64; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Wouldn't this be a use case for git-torrent? http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ http://repo.or.cz/w/VCS-Git-Torrent.git As I understand it, all data would be stored decentraliced and the (optional?) central server only saves, who has which objects. (Just hearing a podcast on bittorrent while reading GIT mailinglist :-) Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro