creationix / git-web-platform

A repository of pre-built js-git libraries for webpages.

git-web-platform

A repository of pre-built js-git libraries for webpages.

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Swapping git-http for regular client-side XMLHttpRequest

Hi,

Exciting work. My apologies in asking a few questions here, as I did not get a reply in the chat area, and I am really excited to dive in more if you could just kindly help me with a few questions.

While the TCP/IP ability sounds attractive for add-ons, I was wondering whether it should be doable to swap git-http with an adapter using regular client-side XMLHttpRequest so as to work same-domain (or cross-site where CORS is available).

Ideally, I'd like the user to be able to make commits locally in IndexedDB or localStorage (as appears to be supported here) and commit/PR back to the server (or to other CORS-enabled servers) or even directly to logged-in peers (using PeerJS perhaps), and allow the server to display any version of a file, commit history, diffs, etc. Similar to Github, but with more file creation and commit management taking place via the browser.

Does git-web-platform seem like a viable option for this, if I were to swap out git-http? Would you expect any need for additional packages of yours?

And did I read correctly that you were working on a Node.js server implementation (I assumed not a pure WebSocket proxy but one which responded to remote commands and stored repos in a server-side database), and if so, what is its status?

Btw, as a FF analogue to your Chrome corson, thought you might want to know about https://github.com/jo5ef/Force-CORS (which should be readily updatable as a restartless extension I think).