On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 10:42 +0200, Michal Novotny wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa
<ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The
> > first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with additional
> > data storage". My initial reaction to that is "so, it is basically
> > just git". My second reaction is "why does additional data storage
> > somehow make git (a distributed version control system) even _more_
> > distributed?".
> >
>
> I might be misremembering, but I think Dist-Git was originally short
> for "Distribution Git". It was the first attempt to marry a binary
> store to Git, predating git-annex and Git LFS by several years.
>
Ha, okay, actually, "distribution Git" makes more sense. Thank you!
I've changed it in the README.
ref:
https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git
"DistGit (Distribution Git) is..."
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