2023-08-08 leverage Git

Mikey@dinosaur@cloudisland.nz

I have had the uncomfortable impression that the space of decentralized projects is constantly reinventing Git-like concepts under different names. So I am personally going to explore how much we can directly leverage Git rather than reinventing eventually-consistent databases and reconciliation protocols.

Erick Lavoie wrote a paper about implementing SSB (Scuttlebutt) on Git:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.08381.pdf

see also:

https://github.com/cn-uofbasel/ssb-over-git

https://archive.org/details/p2p-basel-2023-day2/erick-lavoie-research.mp4

#ssb #scuttlebutt #git #p2p