[joeyguerra]

I love reading articles like this. It's kinda of a slap in the face – "hey guys, you know that thing you've been doing for decades, well for decades you've had this ability to do it with your own stuff if you just spend a few human brain tokens on it".

btw, Git also supports the HTTP protocol ...

[chriswarbo]

> btw, Git also supports the HTTP protocol ...

In fact, Git supports any protocol! If you add a git remote like

    git remote add my-remote my-super-duper-protocol::some-sort-of-address-thingy

Then pushing/pulling `my-remote` will try to invoke a command called `git-remote-my-super-duper-protocol`, with `some-sort-of-address-thingy` in its arguments. You can implement that however you like.

I use remotes like "pkipfs::y5a9inx61aski4miz4sgmg55qgbazxhfwab3i6ee1ypa6rnumi8o", which invokes a custom git-remote-pkipfs command that pushes/pulls object data to IPFS and resolves/updates refs as subdomains of a specified pkarr address.

[jjice]

While yeah it's a thing that many people already are familiar with, I don't think it hurts to push out these concepts once and a while to help spread info to recalibrate those who hadn't learned these yet. I'd rather we have a bunch of articles explaining git specifics than a bunch of engineers that don't know the difference between git and GitHub.