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by intelfx 644 days ago
This strikes me as entirely missing the idea of Radicle.

What you are saying is basically "why automate things if you can just do them manually". But worse is not better; there is value in having the P2P transport layer work _transparently_. If you intend to force user to manually (or semi-automatically) juggle remotes for every single device on the network, you have already lost.

TL;DR What you describe is just Git on top of a generic P2P overlay network. I'm sure it can be done (and I might even believe it could be enough for some limited use-cases), but it is not Radicle.
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boramalper 644 days ago
+1. Also GitHub is more than a git storage, it’s a forge [0]: people use it to store their code, manage changes, track issues, publish releases, and so on. That’s what Radicle wants to be.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)

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alphazard 644 days ago
> What you describe is just Git on top of a generic P2P overlay network

That would be the most widely useful functionality, upon which other features can be layered. If the simple functionality can't be used alone, and you have to buy into a more complicated model, then it makes the tool less broadly useful.

Git actually provides a pretty good experience if you have a remote that's always online. I can push and pull branches around to get between all my different devices. GitHub is usually up.

What I would be interested in, is a remote I can host from my house, instead of the cloud. I could leave the public key on my profile and others can checkout the repository.

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