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Comment by cloudhead

While Git is designed in some way for peer-to-peer interactions, there is no deployment of it that works that way. All deployments use the client-server model because Git lacks functionality to be deployed as-is in a peer-to-peer network.

For one, it has no way of verifying that the repository you downloaded after a `git clone` is the one you asked for, which means you need to clone from a trusted source (ie. a known server). This isn't compatible with p2p in any useful way.

Radicle solves this by assigning stable identities[0] to repositories that can be verified locally, allowing repositories to be served by untrusted parties.

[0]: https://docs.radicle.xyz/guides/protocol#trust-through-self-...

parent cloudhead 2 years ago

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