The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl [LWN.net]

The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl

Posted Nov 12, 2020 4:06 UTC (Thu) by pj (subscriber, #4506)
In reply to: The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl by kuon
Parent article: The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl

I'm waiting for someone (gitlab? gitbucket? someone) to build a federated version so we can self-host but still be part of a single community.

Posted Nov 14, 2020 13:59 UTC (Sat) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link] (2 responses)

Some IPFS options also exist.

https://radicle.xyz/ is the most advanced is my guess.

I hope those get developed further.

My guess is we need good protocols on how to do storage on IPFS for git data, possibly part of regular git program long term.

Posted Nov 15, 2020 3:02 UTC (Sun) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

Seems like there are multiple git remote-helper implementations for IPFS:

Some discussion of git on IPFS:

Posted Nov 17, 2020 9:54 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

As mentioned I hope they settle on the same protocol and an official helper gets added to git binary distribution.