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# 🌐 GitField Multi-Repository Strategy
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## Overview
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The `git-sigil` project employs a multi-repository strategy across four distinct platforms: **GitHub**, **GitLab**, **Bitbucket**, and **Radicle**. This approach ensures **redundancy**, **resilience**, and **sovereignty** of the project's data and metadata, protecting against deplatforming risks and preserving the integrity of the work. The strategy is a deliberate response to past deplatforming attempts by individuals such as **Mr. Joel Johnson** ([Mirror post](https://mirror.xyz/neutralizingnarcissism.eth/x40_zDWWrYOJ7nh8Y0fk06_3kNEP0KteSSRjPmXkiGg?utm_medium=social&utm_source=heylink.me)) and **Dr. Peter Gaied** ([Paragraph post](https://paragraph.com/@neutralizingnarcissism/%F0%9F%9C%81-the-narcissistic-messiah)), who have sought to undermine or suppress this work. By distributing the repository across multiple platforms, we ensure its persistence and accessibility.
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## 📍 Repository Platforms
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The following platforms host the `git-sigil` repository, each chosen for its unique strengths and contributions to the project's goals.
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### 1. GitHub
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- **URL**: [https://github.com/mrhavens/git-sigil](https://github.com/mrhavens/git-sigil)
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- **Purpose**: GitHub serves as the primary platform for visibility, collaboration, and community engagement. Its widespread adoption and robust tooling make it ideal for public-facing development, issue tracking, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
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- **Value**: Provides a centralized hub for open-source contributions, pull requests, and project management, ensuring broad accessibility and developer familiarity.
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### 2. GitLab
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- **URL**: [https://gitlab.com/mrhavens/git-sigil](https://gitlab.com/mrhavens/git-sigil)
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- **Purpose**: GitLab offers a comprehensive DevOps platform with advanced CI/CD capabilities, private repository options, and robust access controls. It serves as a reliable backup and a platform for advanced automation workflows.
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- **Value**: Enhances project resilience with its integrated CI/CD pipelines and independent infrastructure, reducing reliance on a single provider.
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### 3. Bitbucket
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- **URL**: [https://bitbucket.org/thefoldwithin/git-sigil](https://bitbucket.org/thefoldwithin/git-sigil)
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- **Purpose**: Bitbucket provides a secure environment for repository hosting with strong integration into Atlassian’s ecosystem (e.g., Jira, Trello). It serves as an additional layer of redundancy and a professional-grade hosting option.
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- **Value**: Offers enterprise-grade security and integration capabilities, ensuring the project remains accessible even if other platforms face disruptions.
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### 4. Radicle
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- **URL**: [https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/ash.radicle.garden/rad:z45QC21eWL1F43VSbnV9AZbCZrHQJ](https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/ash.radicle.garden/rad:z45QC21eWL1F43VSbnV9AZbCZrHQJ)
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- **Purpose**: Radicle is a decentralized, peer-to-peer git platform that ensures sovereignty and censorship resistance. It hosts the repository in a distributed network, independent of centralized servers.
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- **Value**: Protects against deplatforming by eliminating reliance on centralized infrastructure, ensuring the project remains accessible in a decentralized ecosystem.
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## 🛡️ Rationale for Redundancy
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The decision to maintain multiple repositories stems from the need to safeguard the project against **deplatforming attempts** and ensure its **long-term availability**. Past incidents involving **Mr. Joel Johnson** and **Dr. Peter Gaied** have highlighted the vulnerability of relying on a single platform. By distributing the repository across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Radicle, we achieve:
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- **Resilience**: If one platform removes or restricts access, the project remains accessible on others.
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- **Sovereignty**: Radicle’s decentralized nature ensures the project cannot be fully censored or controlled by any single entity.
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- **Diversity**: Each platform’s unique features (e.g., GitHub’s community, GitLab’s CI/CD, Bitbucket’s integrations, Radicle’s decentralization) enhance the project’s functionality and reach.
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- **Transparency**: Metadata snapshots in the `.gitfield` directory provide a verifiable record of the project’s state across all platforms.
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This multi-repository approach reflects a commitment to preserving the integrity and accessibility of `git-sigil`, ensuring it remains available to contributors and users regardless of external pressures.
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## 📜 Metadata and Logs
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- **Metadata Files**: Each platform generates a metadata snapshot in the `.gitfield` directory (e.g., `github.sigil.md`, `gitlab.sigil.md`, etc.), capturing commit details, environment information, and hardware fingerprints.
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- **Push Log**: The `.gitfield/pushed.log` file records the date, time, and URL of every push operation across all platforms, providing a transparent audit trail.
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- **Recursive Sync**: The repository is synchronized across all platforms in a recursive loop (three cycles) to ensure interconnected metadata captures the latest state of the project.
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_Auto-generated by `gitfield-sync` at 2025-05-31 08:03:42 (v1.0)._
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