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cjb / GitTorrent

A decentralization of GitHub using BitTorrent and Bitcoin
MIT License
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same user/repo ? #85

Open renanyoy opened 5 years ago

renanyoy commented 5 years ago

how gittorent protocol handle 2 persons using exactly the same name: "user/repo" for 2 different repos ?

cjb commented 5 years ago

There are two ways to look up a user: their public key, or a name (e.g. "cjb") registered as assigned to that public key on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Two users can't have the same username, because the blockchain adjudicates which of the two users asked for that name first, and it is owned by that user and not the later one.