Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<luke.leighton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://gitorious.org/python-libbittorrent/pybtlib
>
> hurrah - success!  git fsck shows a "dangling commit"!
>
> so, as a proof-of-concept, 400 lines of python code plus a bittorrent
> library shows that it's possible to create a peer-to-peer distributed
> version of "git fetch", by treating the pack objects as "files to be
> shared".

You should have a look at gittorrent [1] (and finish it too if you are
interested). There were discussions whether a pack is stable enough to
be shared like this, one of the reason "commit reel" was introduced.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/
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Duy
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