*sighs* the slashdot commentators make me sad! Bonus points to whoever got the comments up about "MirrorSync" up on the GitTorrent page. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:15 -0800, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > lots of misinformation in here (including the implication that gittorrent > is ready, or nearly ready to use). > > David Lang > > http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/04/1625226.shtml > > Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent > Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 04, @01:03PM > from the distribute-this-sucka dept. > Programming Media > lkcl writes "The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative > git repository distribution across the Internet. Git promises to be a > distributed software management tool, where a repository can be > distributed. Yet, the mechanisms used to date to actually 'distribute,' > such as ssh, are very much still centralized. GitTorrent makes Git truly > distributed. The initial plans are for reducing mirror loading, however > the full plans include totally distributed development: no central mirrors > whatsoever. PGP signing (an existing feature of git) and other > web-of-trust-based mechanisms will take over from protocols on ports (e.g. > ssh) as the access control 'clearing house.' The implications of a truly > distributed revision control system are truly staggering: unrestricted > software freedom. The playing field is leveled in so many ways, as 'The > Web Site' no longer becomes the central choke-point of control. Coming > just in time for that all-encompassing Free Software revolution hinted at > by The Rebellion Against Vista, this article will explain more fully some > of the implications that make this quiet and technically brilliant > project, GitTorrent, so important to Software Freedom, from both technical > and political perspectives." > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
