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Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

It would be cool if people's self-hosted public repos could be crawled and indexed to create a repo search engine.

1. It would be cool if... 2. Could it work that... 3. Let's get started!

That is a pretty awesome idea. GitHub/Launchpadish but the actual repositories are hosted externally? Hell yeah. Has someone tried this already?