Does Swarm use Git for updating documents, like IPFS does, or does it use something else? I couldn't figure this out from reading any of the documentation?
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Swarm doesn't update documents. An upload produces a specific hash, which is the address of the content.
When you upload a new version, you get a different hash, which becomes the new address of your latest version. This means you get versioning for free.
If you upload a directory, you can change the contents of the directory by issuing a POST to the hash of the upload. This also produces a new hash, which corresponds to the latest version of your directory - again keeping the old version with the old hash.
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1That actually sounds kind of similar to IPFS's Git-based versioning. Commented Oct 12, 2017 at 21:34
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(I don't know the answer to your actual question, but the below may be of some use.)
A while back there was a project called Mango that (claimed it) provided the abstraction layer for plugging Git into any of the P2P content-addressable networks, including Swarm. So slightly different, in that we're not talking about incorporating Git directly.
I'm unsure of the current state of the project. More here.
answered Oct 2, 2017 at 15:42
