Does anyone know about such a platform? I googled a bit there is some white paper on gitlab https://gitlab.com/federated-git-platform/whitepaper but did not find anything concrete.
Yes, it’s called email. Run
git send-email
as Linus intended.
The only correct way of collaboration and sharing code.
Git is distributed, but
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so do many vcs created after git, eg. hg, pijul
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a platform that hosts the repos and issue trackers is different tool.
Security is the main problem here, you normally don’t visit a random host to download the software from, just like you don’t put money on a random unknown bank/stock. That’s the reason I think it is not being federated yet, bc you want to stick with the trusted instance you pick anyway even if it is federated, but then there is not much difference for the host to host the platform without fediverse.
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Both gitlab and gitea/forgejo has plans to add federation. But it’s been planned for years now and I’m not sure how close we are to actually getting it.
Besides, git itself is federated as you create copies of repositories on your computer, just like anyone else. It’s just not very “discoverable”.