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A decentralization of GitHub using BitTorrent and Bitcoin

33 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 3 stories, 30 comments · first 2015-05-29 · latest 2026-09-19

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  1. History repeats itself: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by notpushkin · 2026-09-19 · in You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
  2. …was the right name for the concept, really, hard to beat that. But that one withered on the vine: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by samatman · 2024-02-05 · in Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub
  3. …than it is to migrate to one https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy... https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent et al
    comment by its-summertime · 2021-01-15 · in Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters
  4. Here are similar P2P git-like projects: https://github.com/welldan97/WeGit https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent - based on BitTorrent https://github.com/dhappy/git-remote-ipfs - based on IPFS https://github.com/noffle/hypergit/ - based on Dat
    comment by niutech · 2020-12-07 · in Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
  5. …what it would take to host code in a decentralized fashion. May I introduce you to GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by JamesLeonis · 2020-10-28 · in RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
  6. Time to use gittorrent! https://github.com/cjb/gittorrent
    comment by nolim1t · 2020-10-24 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
  7. There is also https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent but I have not used it myself.
    comment by zxcvbn4038 · 2020-10-24 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
  8. Time to revive GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by blitblitblit · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
  9. https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent/ was building a p2p git. https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed is a github alike that is federated via ActivityPub. this distributes content to a bunch of servers, but it is not cryptographic, not meant to…
    comment by rektide · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
  10. …over the project. EDIT: There's also GitChain [2] which again seems abandoned (since 6 years). [1] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent [2] https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain
    comment by bArray · 2020-05-25 · in GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
  11. …networks. https://github.com/axic/mango [Edit]: Here is another using the BitTorrent protocol - https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by ceres · 2020-03-16 · in GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
  12. …into GitTorrent [1][2]. [1]: https://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gitto... [2]: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by JamesLeonis · 2018-09-29 · in Git is already federated and decentralized
  13. I want also add https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent Cool concept.
    comment by valeg · 2018-06-05 · in GitHub Alternatives
  14. What about a decentralized p2p github? Or ZeroNet type of github? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by WhiteOwlLion · 2018-04-25 · in Ask HN: Should GitHub use as a political discussion platform?
  15. This project was fairly close to that idea: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent I think it’s abandoned though.
    comment by comex · 2018-02-10 · in GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
  16. …viable architectures. [1] https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/issues/2123#issuecomment-... [2] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by niftich · 2016-10-16 · in Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database
  17. What about GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/gittorrent
    comment by jslakro · 2016-10-10 · in Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, and wiki software
  18. IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ GitTorrent: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs Freenet: https://freenetproject.org/documentation.html#understand Urbit: https://urbit.org/docs/using/filesystem/
    comment by niftich · 2016-09-15 · in Web2Web Bootstrap
  19. …useable to build p2p systems, including these and many other projects and libraries. [1] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent [2] https://ipfs.io/ [3] https://github.com/kgryte/awesome-peer-to-peer
    comment by niftich · 2016-08-16 · in Ask HN: Best method to build distributed web apps in 2016?
  20. …implement a distributed [something], where that [something] in your case is a social network. [1] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by niftich · 2016-08-11 · in Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items
  21. Did someone say GitTorrent...? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by maze-le · 2016-04-05 · in GitHub is down
  22. https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent - except you can't get there right now.
    comment by mjg59 · 2016-04-05 · in GitHub is down
  23. Very cool. Have you heard of gittorrent: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by Kinnard · 2016-03-23 · in Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
  24. GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by Kinnard · 2016-02-11 · in Investigate switching away from GitHub
  25. …programming community first. Does anyone see things like GitTorrent as a soulution to the problem? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
    comment by NotUsingLinux · 2016-02-08 · in GitHub-backup: backs up everything GitHub knows about a repository or a user
  26. …GitHub ( http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor... ) The repo is at ... https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent , so just clone that and ... oh ...
    comment by fpgaminer · 2016-01-28 · in GitHub Outage
  27. …complex bits are around having mutable "latest" versions and usernames. And here's the github repo: https://github.com/cjb/gittorrent
    comment by IanCal · 2015-09-29 · in MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
  28. …https://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ although I've never tried it... edit: a more recent (?) link https://github.com/cjb/gittorrent
    comment by mallamanis · 2015-08-25 · in GitHub had connectivity problems
  29. …feels like a perpetual beta/prototype only. Granted, that's my subjective feeling. Raised issue: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent/issues/12
    comment by decentrality · 2015-05-30 · in GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
  30. Yes, it works. npm install gittorrent git clone gittorrent://github.com/cjb/gittorrent Or for true decentralization (doesn't get the wanted sha1 from github.com): gittorrent://81e24205d4bac8496d3e13282c90ead5045f09ea/gittorrent
    comment by cjbprime · 2015-05-29 · in GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub