[8organicbits]

What problems does that solve? Reading blogs over git clone sounds like re-inventing the wheel. Are there even any tools that do that?

If anything were to replace RSS (and Atom) I'd personally hope for h-feed [1] since it's DRYer. But realistically it's going to be hard to eclipse RSS, there's far too much adoption and it is mostly sufficient.

[1] https://indieweb.org/h-feed

[breck]

> What problems does that solve?

A million?

Having your own local copy of your favorite authors' collections is the absolute way to go. So much faster, searchable, transformable, resistant to censorship, et cetera.

[mananaysiempre]

> What problems does that solve? Reading blogs over git clone sounds like re-inventing the wheel.

Can’t say anything about blogs, but the kernel folks actively use mailing list archives over Git[1,2] (also over NNTP and of course mail is also delivered as mail).

[1] https://public-inbox.org/README.html

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/

[kevindamm]

I'm not the GP commenter, but I'm supposing there would be some way of announcing the git repo where you can find the source -- similar to the `<link...>` tag used for RSS, you could have a

  <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-git" title="my blog as a git repo" href="..." />

..and tooling could take care of all the things you like in an RSS reader. I could see this working really well for static site generators like vitepress or Jekyll or what have you, but going beyond what's in the source is kind of project-specific, but maybe I'm interested in just a summary of commits/PRs

Anyway, there isn't an official IANA-defined type for a git repo (the application/x-git is my closest guess until one became official) but my point is it isn't too far beyond what auto-discovery of RSS is.

I think the GP's comment is from the point of view of making it easy to retrieve the contents of the blog archive, easier than the hoops mentioned (bulk archive retrieval and generating WordPress page sequences, etc.) as well as solving the problem in TFA (partial feeds, partial blog contents in the feed).

[breck]

> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-git" title="my blog as a git repo" href="..." />

This is a _great_ idea. Let's make this happen.

Edit: okay this is live now in Scroll and across PLDB, my blog, and other sites. Would love if someone could post this link to HackerNews: https://scroll.pub/blog/gitOverRss.html

[8organicbits]

I'd post the link, and I agree it's a cool idea, but the post looks like a pretty shallow rehashing of the thread.

[kevindamm]

I like it, I'm adding this <link> to my sites now, too

[breck]

Awesome! Any chance you could add some info about who you are to your HN profile? Would love to read your stuff. Clearly a mind full of good ideas!