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		stavros on May 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The largest Git repo Wouldn't IPFS be much, much more suitable for this purpose?

kodablah on May 24, 2017 [–]

IIRC, there are permanence and equitable sharing guarantee concerns with IPFS. The former at least can be helped by pinning I think.

stavros on May 24, 2017 | [–]

Ah, I see, yes. It would be probabilistic, unless there was some way to coordinate sharing (eg downloading the least shared file first).

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