To be fair the write-up on that page is not the clearest possible. I think DanConwayDev (npub15qy…yejr) may be working on a better protocol description.
The idea as far as I know is just that there may be many Git servers anywhere -- like Blossom servers -- that host repositories from anyone (maybe they'll ask for a pre-payment, maybe they will have a free quota for some Nostr users and so on) that you can just push your repositories to. And your pushes are pre-authorized by publishing a Nostr event beforehand that says what is your repository state (branch=commit, HEAD=branch or something like that).
Then when announcing your repository you can include multiple git+http URLs to these servers that people can clone the project from. And Git-enabled Nostr clients can contact these servers to download and display source code and Git history data.
It's a very simple idea but a very powerful one.
fiatjaf /
npub180…jh6w6
2025-06-18 00:03:11
in reply to nevent1q…cejz
Author Public Key
npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6Published at
2025-06-18 00:03:11Event JSON
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