blan 🎑 in Elk: "@lbruno The appeal of NNCP is that things c..."

@jgoerzen Do you actually use gitsync-nncp? In what situations is it useful? thx

Indeed I do! My biggest use case is for my org-mode & org-roam notes. I frequently edit them from multiple devices, so something like

or isn't a great fit for this (due to possibilities of conflicts). git is.

But, when I'm ready to do a "git pull", I may have no Internet - be on a plane, or maybe one of the other machines in the cluster is powered down, etc.

This way, each machine receives diffs whenever it can, and I can effectively "git pull" when convenient.

@jgoerzen @xk3 not to denigrate this approach in any way, it looks very workable

but recently i was told that apple's Notes app relies on storing notes on an IMAP account [probably a user's iCloud] for cross-machine sync

i thought that's a pretty neat trick

The appeal of NNCP is that things can pass node to node.

Git can do this pretty well on its own also but I guess the delay-tolerant component of NNCP helps you avoid wrapping everything in retry loops

August 10, 2025 at 3:49:13 PM

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aye, fully agree w/ that

in fact i like your phrasing very much: that a store-and-forward system is very good for async reqs