How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub

Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by Qwertious on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:38AM (#24978007)

So, if I understand correctly you could do the following:

1. Someone somewhere creates a numbered list of primes (so 1=1,2=2,3=3,4=5,5=7,6=11,7=13,8=17, etc etc) 2. You refer to "the [N]th prime" with a vastly smaller number, and people could fetch it from the list of primes. 3. They could theoretically ban the number N?

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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by tpxl on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:56AM (#24978418)

>with a vastly smaller number

Fun fact, there are a _LOT_ of prime numbers. There are about 10^22 prime numbers smaller than 10^24, so about every 100th number is prime. The ratio decreases the higher you go of course. The vastly smaller number is actually just a few bits smaller :)

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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by roywiggins on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:53AM (#24980101)

If you could do that reliably, you'd obviate all compression algorithms. Unfortunately, primes don't compress like that.

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