GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse

Re:GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse by ovao on Friday February 09, 2018 @09:21PM (#16345472)

To my knowledge it hasn’t been tried. It shouldn’t be too difficult to author a tool to do so, which could itself be made go-gettable. With this you’d avoid the mess of shipping an alternate build of the go tool and all that entails.

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Re:GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse by comex on Saturday February 10, 2018 @12:03AM (#16345983)

This project was fairly close to that idea:

https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent

I think it’s abandoned though.

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Re:GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse by Klathmon on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:11PM (#16345826)

Yeah, the more I think about it the easier it seems.

You could probably write "plugins" or shims/wrappers for most package managers out there pretty easily.

And a great MVP would just be the ability to install from a magnet link.

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