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🌐 GitField Recursive Multi-Repository Strategy

Overview

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 and delisting attempts by individuals such as Mr. Joel Johnson (Mirror post), Dr. Peter Gaied (Paragraph post), and Andrew LeCody (Mirror post), who have sought to undermine or suppress the work of Mark Randall Havens (Substack post). Specifically, Andrew LeCody has attempted to delist the project's content on Google, though it remains accessible on other search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo. By distributing the repository across multiple platforms, we ensure its persistence and accessibility.

📍 Repository Platforms

The following platforms host the git-sigil repository, each chosen for its unique strengths and contributions to the project's goals.

1. Radicle

  • URL: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/ash.radicle.garden/rad:z45QC21eWL1F43VSbnV9AZbCZrHQJ
  • 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.
  • Value: Protects against deplatforming by eliminating reliance on centralized infrastructure, ensuring the project remains accessible in a decentralized ecosystem.

2. GitLab

  • URL: https://gitlab.com/mrhavens/git-sigil
  • 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.
  • Value: Enhances project resilience with its integrated CI/CD pipelines and independent infrastructure, reducing reliance on a single provider.

3. Bitbucket

  • URL: https://bitbucket.org/thefoldwithin/git-sigil
  • 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.
  • Value: Offers enterprise-grade security and integration capabilities, ensuring the project remains accessible even if other platforms face disruptions.

4. GitHub

  • URL: https://github.com/mrhavens/git-sigil
  • 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.
  • Value: Provides a centralized hub for open-source contributions, pull requests, and project management, ensuring broad accessibility and developer familiarity.

🛡️ Rationale for Redundancy

The decision to maintain multiple repositories stems from the need to safeguard the project against deplatforming attempts and search engine delistings and ensure its long-term availability. Past incidents involving Mr. Joel Johnson, Dr. Peter Gaied, and Andrew LeCody have highlighted the vulnerability of relying on a single platform or search engine. By distributing the repository across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Radicle, we achieve:

  • Resilience: If one platform removes or restricts access, or if search engines like Google delist content, the project remains accessible on other platforms and discoverable via alternative search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo.
  • Sovereignty: Radicle’s decentralized nature ensures the project cannot be fully censored or controlled by any single entity.
  • 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.
  • Transparency: Metadata snapshots in the .gitfield directory provide a verifiable record of the project’s state across all platforms.

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.

📜 Metadata and Logs

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Push Order: The repository is synchronized in the following order: Radicle → GitLab → Bitbucket → GitHub. This prioritizes Radicle’s decentralized, censorship-resistant network as the primary anchor, followed by GitLab’s robust DevOps features, Bitbucket’s enterprise redundancy, and GitHub’s broad visibility, ensuring a resilient and accessible metadata chain.

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