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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>GitTorrent is an experimental project by Chris Ball (AKA cjb) to use BitTorrent as a P2P distribution network for Git objects.<br />
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The key idea is to distribute Git packfiles, as created by Git smart protocol negotiation, via Bittorrent.<br />
The implementation of this idea is plugged into Git via the ad-hoc gittorrent:// URL scheme, implemented in turn by the git-remote-gittorrent helper.<br />
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Additionally, GitTorrent also aims at not relying on GitHub to retrieve the information about what is the last commit in a given repository.<br />
To that end, GitTorrent leverages the Bitcoin blockchain to distribute (signed) messages about what is the most recent commit in a given repository, and uses consensus there to decide who is assigned a given user name.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* [http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ introductory blog post], on Chris' blog<br />
* [https://github.com/cjb/gittorrent source code] on GitHub<br />
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