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Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

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billconan · 1790394501 · focus · HN ↗
can this be deployed as AWS lambda, so that it can scale down to zero？
1. CBLT · 1790527241 · focus · HN ↗
  The readme seems to say the answer is yes? You'll lose the disk-based cache, but it's not inherently unsafe because the only coordination is object storage.
anthoniks · 1790395517 · focus · HN ↗
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jauntywundrkind · 1790527819 · focus · HN ↗
There's so many of these things now! Good!
This one appears to be a more active fork of Tobi's, <a href="https://github.com/tobi/walgit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tobi/walgit <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420598">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420598
My comment listing 6 from 2 weeks ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763869">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763869
1. wrsh07 · 1790532690 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm confused why there's no attribution or reference to Tobi's (which in turn referenced the cursor git post)
  Attribution is not just a problem for LLMs in mathematics!
  Tobi is where I first heard the concept: <a href="https://github.com/tobi/walgit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tobi/walgit
  And he credits this Cursor post for giving him the ideas and says it's worth reading: <a href="https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale" rel="nofollow">https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
  Note: in related work, the East River Source Control team has posted about their vision for git as well: <a href="https://ersc.io/blog/what-comes-after-git" rel="nofollow">https://ersc.io/blog/what-comes-after-git
  1. jauntywundrkind · 1790536399 · focus · HN ↗
    I agree and nearly commented about that; it is very concerning & ought be at least in the README.
    I was charitably thinking perhaps maybe possibly being a fork doesn't give you access to the full suite of GitHub tools: iirc issues aren't at least by default available? Maybe there's a setting for that.
    It felt like a little too big a topic to tackle in my post, so I ommited, but I definitely have concerns! Very weird.
uptownhr · 1790530537 · focus · HN ↗
I made one similar running in cloudflare <a href="https://github.com/Zabaca/zbc/tree/main/packages/cli/templates/apps/walgit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Zabaca/zbc/tree/main/packages/cli/templat...
And built <a href="https://agentgit.co" rel="nofollow">https://agentgit.co with it.
Scales to 0
1. Imustaskforhelp · 1790532726 · focus · HN ↗
  Interesting that it uses cloudflare for the scales to 0/cf workers part. I wanted something like this, starred!
  Does this make the git object storage part cache on cloudflare though or is it sent straight from the configured S3 bucket?
  1. uptownhr · 1790596962 · focus · HN ↗
    It does cache on the container while it is warm.
spankalee · 1790541676 · focus · HN ↗
I really want something like this but that can be backed by a database or in-memory store, say for running Git in a browser, phone app, or Wasm.
1. yablak · 1790550130 · focus · HN ↗
  Maybe this?
  <a href="https://github.com/chrislloyd/git-remote-sqlite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chrislloyd/git-remote-sqlite
kiliancs · 1790560832 · focus · HN ↗
You may also be interested in <a href="https://alchemy.run/git/" rel="nofollow">https://alchemy.run/git/

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