Proposal: Decentralization of gitea repositories? #6714

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opened 2025-11-02 07:04:30 -06:00 by GiteaMirror · 4 comments
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Originally created by @Kreyren on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021).

Inspired by zeronet's git service proposing to implement decentralization of repositories so that the instance doesn't have to host everything by themselves.

Originally created by @Kreyren on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021). Inspired by zeronet's git service proposing to implement decentralization of repositories so that the instance doesn't have to host everything by themselves.
GiteaMirror added the type/proposal label 2025-11-02 07:04:30 -06:00
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@techknowlogick commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021):

For hosting repos not on the users current instance we have issues open about federation this would be our desired approach.

@techknowlogick commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021): For hosting repos not on the users current instance we have issues open about federation this would be our desired approach.
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@6543 commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021):

just a side note ... if you look on a repo at "Git Center" it download the whole thing ...

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so it's not a decentralized file storing in that sence ... and there is a consensus to adopt ForgeFed (#14186, ...) at some point ...

@6543 commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021): just a side note ... if you look on a repo at "Git Center" it download the whole thing ... @Kreyren so it's not a decentralized file storing in that sence ... and there is a consensus to adopt ForgeFed (#14186, ...) at some point ...
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@Kreyren commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021):

Why not implementing or at least tracking this interpretation as well? Could be configurable thing

@Kreyren commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021): Why not implementing or at least tracking this interpretation as well? Could be configurable thing
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@6543 commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021):

1.4k issues ...

@6543 commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2021): 1.4k issues ...
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Reference: github-starred/gitea#6714