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Git’s style of decentralization, still requires individual git servers no? Is there something like git, but based on magnet/torrent architecture?

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donatj|5 years ago

Required? Not really. You can work without a central server, pulling from individuals machines over SFTP or SMB as we did for a few years in the early 2010s.

It was always awkward and we moved to GitHub shortly before I left.

yupyup54133|5 years ago

There is also dgit which is git with Tupelo for the distributed hash tables and Sia's skynet for the storage layer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22684945

saagarjha|5 years ago

You can have multiple Git remotes or none at all. Unlike torrents it doesn’t help you with discovery of peers with mirrors, but other than that there’s probably a hundred copies of this repository sitting on people’s hard drives.