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AD: Newly joined protocol dev here, feel free to ask questions!

a-french-anon 8mo ago
Hello, I read the FAQ and didn't manage to find (perhaps my fault) if users had to store data they didn't explicitly/manually cloned; like Freenet. Is it the case?
- endiangroup 8mo ago
  AD: You have control over what you seed, if you are a permissive node you accept all content on the network, but by default your local node will only seed what you instruct it too.
- lorenzleutgeb 8mo ago
  No. Please refer to https://radicle.xyz/guides/user https://radicle.xyz/guides/user and read this to understand the concept of "policies". This should answer your question, but otherwise of course I am happy to explain further.
Tepix 8mo ago
This sounds pretty cool, can I do pull requests across radicle instances? gitlab recently closed a 2015 feature request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14116 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14116 PS: What's this "AD" prefix you're using?
- endiangroup 8mo ago
  AD: Pull requests are `patches` in radicle, when you clone a repository you create a git namespace for yourself from which you can edit to your hearts desire, you can then open patches to other repos via this mechanism.
  - nh2 8mo ago
    Are you open to rename the "patches" terminology? Apparently currently "1 patch = 1 pull request of e.g. multiple commits" in Radicle. That confusing, since in Git a patch usually refers to a single commit: * git format-patch outputs 1 ".patch" file per commit. * Its output also enshrines that, in the subject lines that appear e.g. on Linux mailing lists: "[PATCH 1/2]", meaning "one of two patches in a patch series". (That said, `git format-patch --stdout` can concatenate multiple commits into a single output, but it does not offer to write those into a single .patch file by itself.) So when reading "Patches", I was intuitively unnecessarily scared that the tool cannot handle whole branches, and flattens out all commits. Maybe "Patchsets"? That's what kernel people apparently call them: https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#What_is_a_patchset.3F https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#What_is_a_patchset... https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#Patches_are_git_commits https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#Patches_are_git_co...
    - endiangroup 8mo ago
      AD: Those are fair points, feel free to jump on our [zulip](https://radicle.zulipchat.com/#recent https://radicle.zulipchat.com/#recent) and start a discussion there!
      - nh2 8mo ago
        Unfortunately I won't have time for that; I just saw Radicle for the first time from this posting and wanted to drop-contribute what I think would reduce confusion for many people. You'll have to take it from here :-)
  - happosai 8mo ago
    This sounds really, really cool. How does reviewing such patch-PR's work?
- endiangroup 8mo ago
  AD: The prefix is my initials :) - my only HN account is a shared one with a co-op organisation I work through. I use AD to distinguish who's commenting... however my co-workers have yet to use this account ha!
  - pseudalopex 8mo ago
    Your initials form a word used as a disclaimer often. And shared HN accounts are not common.
  - nh2 8mo ago
    If you replace "AD:" by "Adrian from Endian writing:", people won't have to wonder what "AD" means, and waste their and your time on asking (you will probably get this question a lot otherwise).
  - aldonius 8mo ago
    Thanks for clarifying. Just for reference, usually folks in this situation use postfix initials rather than prefix (like how blockquotes are cited). - J.S.

Hello, I read the FAQ and didn't manage to find (perhaps my fault) if users had to store data they didn't explicitly/manually cloned; like Freenet. Is it the case?

endiangroup 8mo ago
AD: You have control over what you seed, if you are a permissive node you accept all content on the network, but by default your local node will only seed what you instruct it too.
lorenzleutgeb 8mo ago
No. Please refer to https://radicle.xyz/guides/user https://radicle.xyz/guides/user and read this to understand the concept of "policies". This should answer your question, but otherwise of course I am happy to explain further.

Tepix 8mo ago

This sounds pretty cool, can I do pull requests across radicle instances? gitlab recently closed a 2015 feature request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14116 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14116 PS: What's this "AD" prefix you're using?

endiangroup 8mo ago
AD: Pull requests are `patches` in radicle, when you clone a repository you create a git namespace for yourself from which you can edit to your hearts desire, you can then open patches to other repos via this mechanism.
- nh2 8mo ago
  Are you open to rename the "patches" terminology? Apparently currently "1 patch = 1 pull request of e.g. multiple commits" in Radicle. That confusing, since in Git a patch usually refers to a single commit: * git format-patch outputs 1 ".patch" file per commit. * Its output also enshrines that, in the subject lines that appear e.g. on Linux mailing lists: "[PATCH 1/2]", meaning "one of two patches in a patch series". (That said, `git format-patch --stdout` can concatenate multiple commits into a single output, but it does not offer to write those into a single .patch file by itself.) So when reading "Patches", I was intuitively unnecessarily scared that the tool cannot handle whole branches, and flattens out all commits. Maybe "Patchsets"? That's what kernel people apparently call them: https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#What_is_a_patchset.3F https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#What_is_a_patchset... https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#Patches_are_git_commits https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#Patches_are_git_co...
  - endiangroup 8mo ago
    AD: Those are fair points, feel free to jump on our [zulip](https://radicle.zulipchat.com/#recent https://radicle.zulipchat.com/#recent) and start a discussion there!
    - nh2 8mo ago
      Unfortunately I won't have time for that; I just saw Radicle for the first time from this posting and wanted to drop-contribute what I think would reduce confusion for many people. You'll have to take it from here :-)
- happosai 8mo ago
  This sounds really, really cool. How does reviewing such patch-PR's work?
endiangroup 8mo ago
AD: The prefix is my initials :) - my only HN account is a shared one with a co-op organisation I work through. I use AD to distinguish who's commenting... however my co-workers have yet to use this account ha!
- pseudalopex 8mo ago
  Your initials form a word used as a disclaimer often. And shared HN accounts are not common.
- nh2 8mo ago
  If you replace "AD:" by "Adrian from Endian writing:", people won't have to wonder what "AD" means, and waste their and your time on asking (you will probably get this question a lot otherwise).
- aldonius 8mo ago
  Thanks for clarifying. Just for reference, usually folks in this situation use postfix initials rather than prefix (like how blockquotes are cited). - J.S.