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It’s David Riccardo’s comparative advantage all over again!
Maybe there’s something you are doing that someone else can do instead so you have time for the PR? :upside_down_face::blush:

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Could you share those branches here or somewhere where it can be easily found?
If you have an overview of

  • what has been done
  • where we are now
  • what has to be done and in which order

maybe somebody would be able to help out. Right now, I wouldn’t know where to start, nor what to do, and probably I’m not the only one.

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See https://github.com/obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide/blob/092078ae0a98100211db6027b4a6c154fa64abd5/branches.md and the old last page draft PRs in Pull requests · NixOS/nix · GitHub

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At long last I did the merging to get the Git parts up to date

(expand for gory tig output :slight_smile: )

           M─┐ [git-objects-develop] Merge branch 'store-path-or-ca' into git-objects-devel
            │ M─┐ [store-path-or-ca] {obsidian/store-path-or-ca} Merge branch 'store-path-de
            │ │ M─┐ [store-path-descriptor] {obsidian/store-path-descriptor} Merge remote-tr
            M─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit 'f7f1be69330212d22c11027adb4bd8a07c1f56fe' into git-objec
            │ M─│─│─┤ Merge commit 'b21dd384235bc9863c89ef249bbc1ca58f4ec3fd' into store-pat
            M─│─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit '7cac155fc8b548de7b4e054aee66551e2fc93289' into git-obj
            │ M─│─│─│─┤ Merge commit 'c67e0cc58c5a74121d74a3f5cf9f9c2199a87093' into store-p
            M─│─│─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit '6208375ba942a676da12e79c135e07eb585cd9b0' into git-o
            │ M─│─│─│─│─┤ Merge commit '6601ac86421fb05377f113aa52c55da7b9cbe658' into store
            M─│─│─│─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit '6305b77a2878333bf2af208ffe691d10ad233812' into git
            │ M─│─│─│─│─│─┤ Merge commit '056cc1c1b903114f59c536dd9821b46f68516f4e' into sto
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            │ M─│─│─│─│─│─│─┤ Merge commit '2e7be46e73293f729358eefc5b464dcb7e2d76bf' into s
            M─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit '3a43680ff89cc3bba167773c32dbc3762148857e' into
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            M─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit 'c08971bf2df0bfa0deb2b58451ebf3a65f1e0f72' in
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            M─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─│─┐ Merge commit '554f00
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As a result, we have this draft PR Git object hashing in libstore by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8918 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Thanks to @matthewbauer in particular who, back in 2020, wrote most of the underlying implementation.

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A little status update, per [RFC 0133] Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #133 · NixOS/rfcs · GitHub the first part of the git hashing RFC 133 is now implemented!

nix store add --mode git --hash-algo sha1 <file>

You can see the tracking issue and milestone for what remains.

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It has been a while, may I ask what’s the current state of the proposal, and what work still needs to be done and accepted? :upside_down_face:

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