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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` solderpunk writes: > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 02:55:03PM +0200, Felix Quei?ner wrote: > I have to admit, this idea has occasionally crossed my mind. Most > recently, when Dave wrote a helper for Git so that people could `git > pull` over Gemini, which I thought was super cool - `git push` isn't > possible with Gemini as a read-only protocol. > > It's not that I don't think there are good uses for this. For what it's worth, I personally don't even think allowing git pushesover gemini is a good reason for modifying the protocol. Git has it'sown application-level protocol that works perfectly for this kind ofthing. Gemini is very close to _perfect_ for it's intended use: servingup primarily textual content to humans in a relatively secure butpleasantly simple way. I really think it'd be tragic to compromise onthis for reasons that are tangential to the original goal. Just my 2c, Tim-------------- next part --------------A non-text attachment was scrubbed...Name: signature.ascType: application/pgp-signatureSize: 487 bytesDesc: not availableURL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200517/ebf55f04/attachment-0001.sig>