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In the default setup, storage is provided by sia skynet, so on push all git objects are distributed across the sia network and are simply retrieved when you do a git fetch / clone from a dgit url. But as mentioned, thats configurable and could be any other storage system.

However, even with distributed storage, you still need to know what makes up the git index on a given git url (aka dgit://quorumcontrol/tupelo) - this is where the Tupelo DLT comes in. When you do a push, the Tupelo network verifies the request and updates the refs of that repo.

Both of these are just basic tcp/https requests, so there truly is no long running daemon on your machine required in order to push or fetch dgit repos.