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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 18:47:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100904224726.GE4887@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhCi2vWWnHGwT5ToRtFbjkxTgVYVvYLR3UCb2S@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 09:47:19PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> Q: is git a "distributed source control system"?
> A: yeees, but the "distribution" part has to be done the hard way,
>    by setting up servers, forcing developers and users to configure
>    git to use those [single-point-of-failure] servers.  so it's
>    "more correct" to say that git is a "distributable" source control
>    system.

Is typing the command "git daemon" on the command line really that
hard?  For bonus points it could register with Avahi (i.e., the
Zeroconf protocol), which would make it easier to set up adhoc sharing
arrangements.  But if that's your goal, I'd suggest making "git
daemon" simpler to set up --- since it's pretty trivial to set up as
it is.  I'd then suggest adding to "git gui" an option to allow a user
to browse local git servers who have advertised themselves using the
Zeroconf protocol and do a git fetch from the local server.

But if you want to work on peer2peer because it's "cool", feel free.
But I suspect telling people that all if you have to do is run "git
daemon" on one machine, and using "git gui" to browse through the
available git servers on the other machines, it really isn't going to
get any easier....

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-04 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-01 14:36 git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works! Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-01 22:04 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-02 13:37   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 13:53     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 14:08     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-02 15:33     ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 15:42       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 15:51         ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 17:06           ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 15:58         ` Jeff King
2010-09-02 16:41           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-02 17:09             ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 17:31               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-02 19:17                 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 19:29                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-09-02 19:51                     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 20:06                     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03  0:36                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 10:34                         ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 17:03                         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-02 20:28                     ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-02 20:48                       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 20:45                     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-02 21:10                       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 21:19                         ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03  0:29                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03  2:48                           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-03 10:55                             ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 10:23                           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 10:54                           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 18:07           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 18:23             ` Casey Dahlin
2010-09-02 16:58         ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 17:21         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-02 19:41           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 19:52             ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 23:09             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 10:37               ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-03 11:04                 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 17:12                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-03 18:31                   ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-03 19:41                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 21:11                       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04  0:24                         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-04  0:57                           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-04  1:52                           ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04  4:39                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04  5:42                               ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04  6:13                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 11:58                                   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 13:14                                     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-05  2:16                                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-05 18:05                                         ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-05 23:52                                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-06 13:23                                             ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-06 16:51                                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-06 22:33                                                 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-06 23:34                                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-06 23:57                                                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-07  0:17                                                     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-07  0:29                                                     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 13:42                                   ` Artur Skawina
     [not found]                                     ` <20100904155638.GA17606@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
2010-09-04 17:23                                       ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04 18:46                                       ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04  1:57                       ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04  5:23                         ` Kyle Moffett
2010-09-04 11:46                           ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04 14:06                           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-05  1:32                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-05 17:16                               ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04  5:40                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 12:00                           ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04 12:44                             ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 14:50                             ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 18:14                               ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-04 20:00                                 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 22:41                                   ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-05 17:22                                     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 20:20                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-04 20:47                                   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 21:16                                     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-04 21:24                                       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 22:47                                     ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-09-05  1:43                                       ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-09-05  1:18                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-05 17:25                               ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-06  0:05                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 12:33                           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

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