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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by bnj on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:43PM (#7759076)
Just turns out to be a huge drag when secrets get accidentally committed to the swarm.
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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by kadhjasdkj on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:53PM (#7759101)
I fully agree, but isn't that roughly the same with Github?

Technically it's much much different of course, but if you commit some private keys/etc to Github, you have to invalidate everything used and assume that someone saw it, Google saw it, and it's cached in multiple places. Right?

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