The Autonomous Research Assistant Second Class was watching the output of the Archive Processor, following interesting leads whenever something promising showed up. “Using git as a building block for the sneaker net, huh? What ever became of that?” He started following leads. A discussion of RFC 8142 and how URNs could be used to link to files in other repositories without domain names. He started looking for resolution services where people would submit repos and the service indexed all the hashes in it. Given a hash, it would then know the URL. Definitely something to talk about with the Git Protocol Tech Librarian on the next shift.
gemini://mntn.xyz/posts/2021-10-25-a-proposal-for-a-git-link-url/
3 years ago · 👍 syntheist
gemini://mntn.xyz/posts/2021-10-25-a-proposal-for-a-git-link-url/
You are right, @mntn – but keeping and sharing my entire editing history forever also doesn't suit me. For my wiki, the old revisions are deleted after a while but the history itself remains. Since I often don't write a change summary, it ends up being an "activity indicator", not a typo and insult keeper. · 3 years ago
Well, it would partially break them at least (commit IDs would change, so links pointing to a specific version would stop working.) But more generally with any sneakernet capable distribution people will be keeping copies. · 3 years ago
@kensanata The internet never forgets either! But actually with git you can rebase if you want to erase history. Under this scheme it would break external links, though. · 3 years ago
OK, i must stop! 😅 gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2018-06-29_No_Take_Back · 3 years ago
gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2018-06-29_No_Take_Back
oops, I keep finding links on my blog: gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2020-08-02_A_word-of-mouth_network · 3 years ago
gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2020-08-02_A_word-of-mouth_network
and here: gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2017-04-27_Record_Keeping · 3 years ago
gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2017-04-27_Record_Keeping
discussed here: gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2021/202110/20211029-thoughts-on-git-as-content-distribution.gmi · 3 years ago
gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2021/202110/20211029-thoughts-on-git-as-content-distribution.gmi
The one thing I don't like about git for distribution of text is that it never forgets. This is incompatible to how the legal system works, to how humans work. · 3 years ago
Glad somebody saw it :) I'm honestly just surprised that a standard like this doesn't exist yet, given how fundamental git has been to the internet. There's even a draft URN for device identifiers (9039). · 3 years ago