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On 08/05/2014 21:13, James wrote: |
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> So, what a torrent_style tool that uses a distributed hashes/keys to check |
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> code integrity; is possible? |
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In one word: git |
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> Surely the code histogram idea is possible? |
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Again, git. |
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An aspect of the git design spec is to try deal with the kind of things |
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you are pondering here. It seems a valid approach - if many people out |
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there clone and make copies of the code then work on it, and if a bad |
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hat injects some weirdness, there are enough eyes to hopefully catch it. |
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Now that I think of it, it's an elegant solution: |
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Avoid the problems of a single master store but not having one. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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