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wat is GRASP? i have started a negentropy peer implementation on orly now too, and it has a serve function that uses tmpfs, and blossom is default on, and respects whatever ACL system you enable. there is an aggregator tool that lets you trawl the nostrwebs for your events and writes them to jsonl. it has a GUI, which is still a bit of a WIP but already lets you log in, view and delete your own events. there is a zap-to-subscribe system for paid use case but it's untested as yet, same as blossom, though it's tested to the gills. but wat is grasp?

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Grasp is Blossom for git repositories. You can host your repositories in multiple servers and their state is attested by Nostr events you publish that tells people where to fetch from and what is the latest head and branches, so the servers don't have to be trusted and it's easy to switch servers while keeping your repository identifiers immutable (they're essentially your pubkey + an arbitrary identifier). Grasp servers can be self-hosted, paid, or ran for free by some community benefactor, and you can mix and use all these at the same time. The existence of grasp servers also makes it easy for people to clone repositories, create branches and make them available to be merged by others, all without leaving the terminal (but of course there can also be all kinds of clients), which is the GitHub "pull request" UX people are familiar with.
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Full Grasp support coming to BudaBit soon, the primitives are already implemented. 1. What we struggled with is the creation flow where we first post the repo announcement then the newly created git repo, but that must be done with an arbitrary sleep(X ms) wait time so that's not really ideal. You guys have ideas to improve this flow? 2. I think it this was discussed before but want to get a fresh opinion of yall: Unified grasp api for file browsing and perhaps diffs and really data-heavy ops? Cloning repos via git smart http can still be a fallback but this would benefit performance a lot. Blossom has an api as well so I guess this would make sense, especially in a browser context. @fiatjaf @DanConwayDev