[jeffheard]

This is crazy talk of course, but I wonder if there'd be some way to use rsync or git to support distributed development of images the way git does with code?

I mean, it'd be neat to be able to do a "pull" of diffs from one image into another related image. Merge branches and so on. I don't know, possibly this would be just too unreliable, but I would have previously thought that what docker is doing right now would be too unreliable for production use, and lo and behold we have it and it's awesome.

[shykes]

It wouldn't be the craziest thing people do with docker:

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/10/22/sync-hacks-deploy-bitt...

http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-ov...

There has been discussion of taking the git analogy further. We actually experimented with a lot of that early on (https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets) and I can tell you it's definitely possible to take the scm analogy too far :)

I do think we can still borrow a few interesting things from git. Including, potentially, their packfile format and cryptographic signatures of each diff. We'll see!

Here's a relevant discussion thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/docker-user/CWc5HB6kAN...