Nostr Web Client

It is better to use that than to come up with a different new way of doing things. But so far it is looking like a broken feature in the git client directly that no one uses. It would still be a good idea to fix it and use it than to create a new one.

DanConwayDev 1y ago

its definitely worth supporting for git servers designed to work with nostr. Its just widespread support is probably unlikely. Its a little but uncertain the extent to which repositories that use nostr will use free-to-host git servers (ie remain on github) vs using bespoke solutions like song or ghole.

I did some tests with native git options if `git archive`. Its probably then worth having a stateful proxy service that serves from a cache of repositories.

```

git clone --no-checkout --filter=tree:0 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

cd bitcoin

git restore --staged README.md

git checkout README.md

```

3 calls - 28.44mb + 88kb + 1.57kb

```

git clone --no-checkout --filter=blob:none https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

cd bitcoin

git restore --staged README.md

git checkout README.md

```

2 calls - 55.46mb + 1.57kb

```

git clone --no-checkout

cd bitcoin

git restore --staged README.md

git checkout README.md

```

1 calls - 247.66mb

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DanConwayDev 1y ago

Its probably a much better UX to enable browsing of directories, files and commits / branches and states at different commit histories. In which case you would need to do some sort of a clone anyway.