From e9fd9e1b8d3bcabbc055f3fda6dbce6ef5688269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Broder Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:59:13 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] \exists anyg.it --- projects/ideas.mdwn | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/projects/ideas.mdwn b/projects/ideas.mdwn index a859aaa..892e117 100644 --- a/projects/ideas.mdwn +++ b/projects/ideas.mdwn @@ -158,25 +158,6 @@ database. One possible platform is the [Exhibit](http://simile-widgets.org/exhib _Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_ -## Search across every public git repository - -The [git](http://www.git-scm.com/) version control system has been -rapidly gaining in popularity both in the world of free software at -large as well as at here at SIPB. One of the properties of git is -that every object, whether it's a specific version of a file or a -changeset to a project's source code, has a unique identifying hash -(e.g., "8c5fa44b1a4902ba1f84a71df20bfe4f21867a7c"). Given one of these -hashes, it should be possible to identify which project it came from -and what it refers to. - -The "easy" way to do this is to create a massive single git repository -with references to every public git repository we can find, but that -probably causes performance problems, so you may need to be cleverer -about how data is stored and expose a different interface. You'll -also need to figure out a way to find all public git repositories. - -_Contact: geofft, nelhage_ - ## Improve the Setup and UI for new users of Zephyr Currently, it is a pain to get someone else set up using zephyr -- 2.44.0