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diff --git a/tool/globalist/README.md b/tool/globalist/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2fa80387..00000000 --- a/tool/globalist/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -# Globalist -Globalist provides distributed sharing of repositories without the need of central instances (like Microsoft GitHub). - -This is an attempt to ease the distribution of git repos, to overcome the risk of a central points of failure. - -Globalist stands for "Global List" and aims at replacing any EtherPads of more than transient value. - -It is also meant to evolve into an experimental distributed asynchronous wiki facility. - -Nodes can come and go, and network topology only depends on the peers entries in the nodes' config files. Changes that are merged by one's peers propagate by diffusion. - -The official repository can be found at https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/stop_cloudflare - -## Usage - -To use Globalist.py `python3` is needed. Either run it from globalist directory with `python3 Globalist.py` or or install it as described below. - -Per default an open tor ControlPort at 9151 without authentication is expected. You can choose another port with `-C`. -For a list of option see `--help`. - -### Create repository - -Make a new directory and put this in the file ./repo.cfg (when creating a new repository instead of cloning from a peer, the list or indeed the repo.cfg file can remain empty) - -``` -[network] -peers = <comma-separated list of onion domain names, with or without the suffix .onion> -``` - -For a public repository, no authentication is needed (option -_X_). In case authentication is used, prepend the secret as follows: somebody:secret@peeroniondomainname.onion - -For each shared repo, Globalist will create one .onion service. Note that it is possible to use either bare repos or not-bare repos. - -### Clone a repository - -To clone a bare repo: - -``` -Globalist.py -bc ... -``` - -To pull once from a bare repo: - -``` -Globalist.py -bp -``` - -## To install locally - -``` -./setup.py install --user -``` - -or - -``` -torsocks pip3 install -v -e . -``` - -## To do - -set default commit messages -support signed commits -push? |