Nostr Git

Decentralized code hosting. Git repositories with Nostr identity and collaboration.

Overview

Nostr Git enables:

• Code hosting on Nostr — Repos announced via events
• Cryptographic ownership — Signed by maintainer keys
• Decentralized issues/PRs — Collaboration via Nostr events
• No single point of failure — Distributed across relays

How It Works

Repository Announcement

Maintainers publish events announcing their repos:

{
  "kind": 30617,
  "tags": [
    ["d", "my-project"],
    ["name", "My Project"],
    ["description", "A cool project"],
    ["clone", "https://git.example.com/repo.git"],
    ["web", "https://github.com/user/repo"]
  ],
  "content": "Project README..."
}

Issues and PRs

Collaboration happens via Nostr events:

• Issues as kind 1617 events
• Patches as kind 1618 events
• Comments threaded via replies

Benefits

GitHub	Nostr Git
Centralized	Distributed
Account required	Just a keypair
Can be banned	Censorship-resistant
Microsoft owned	Community owned

Clients

• gitstr — CLI client
• Web clients — In development

Links

• Website: nostrgit.org
• NIPs: Git-related Nostr Implementation Possibilities

See Also

• Nostr Protocol — The underlying protocol
• Decentralized Identity