Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Monotone w/out server machine

[Adam Logghe]

I'm not the guy to ask about the crypto support but to my knowledge your
passphrase isn't stored in the db. You could password protect the
website too.

I talked to Graydon abit about sending individual branches around
instead of the whole db and it sounds like it would work fine. It should
really only be neccessary for people with really badly firewalled
situations. Hmmm of course it will be more import to know how to do as
projects using Monotone get larger....

There is a bug filed by someone a few days ago regarding keys being
stored in the db, but I kind of like the convenience of only needing the
monotone binary and the db to be airmobile.

Adam

John Ilves wrote:
> Hmm, so I could make my database available by putting it on an http
> server? Wouldn't anyone who downloads it then have my private key?
> Speaking of which why are keys stored in databases, instead of, say,
> ~/.monotone/keys?
>
> John
>
> Adam Logghe wrote:
>
>> Hey John,
>>
>> I just started using Monotone in the last 2 weeks and from my
>> perspective, coming from Arch I wouldn't have been as interested in
>> Monotone without netsync.
>>
>> Prior to this change, Monotone really wasn't "peer to peer". You were
>> forced to go to a web/nntp/mail server as a central depot.
>>
>> Now because the monotone binary is the server too, I can run monotone
>> serve on my workstation and do a "sync" from my laptop. Then I take the
>> laptop to work and fire up "serve" from my desktop there and "sync" from
>> my laptop.
>>
>> As I think through the perambulations of working+synching branches with
>> colleagues this really seems like a huge win being truly peer to peer.
>>
>> The only real negative I see is not having the ability to "sync" through
>>  companies that have http proxy only setups (uggggh I hate that). In
>> this situation you could pull down an entire copy of someones monotone
>> db. Then run it as a server and sync yourself with that and then pass it
>> back out to the internet.
>>
>> Anyway, very happy here with Monotone.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> graydon hoare wrote:
>> > John Ilves wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've seen several references to using a mailing list, nntp server or
>> >> cgi script as a depot with Monotone, instead of running a Monotone
>> >> server. I cannot however find anything in the Monotone documentation
>> >> about this. How would you go about using Monotone in this way?
>> >
>> >
>> > this mode of operation has been removed from monotone; it used to work
>> > that way, but it required an unacceptable degree of inter-machine and
>> > temporal coupling -- machines had to keep sequence numbers for one
>> > another -- so we switched to a new protocol (netsync).
>> >
>> > sorry about this. it's a tradeoff. we could have continued to run that
>> > way, but I felt the costs outweighed the benefits.
>> >
>> > -graydon
>> >
>> >
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