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by WalterBright 439 days ago
Git hasn't quite taken the step of making the hash the URL you use to download a file, any file, and be assured it is exactly what you thought it was, as the hash of the file must match its URL.

This is currently done in a haphazard way, not particularly organized.

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git over ipfs then?
I believe that's approximately what this is trying to do https://radicle.xyz/#:~:text=radicle%20is%20an%20open%20sour... although evidently using a custom protocol not ipfs itself