After 4.3 is out...

[Long, Martin]

> You may be amused to learn that when Linus and I came up with the crazy
> idea of doing git storage for Subsurface the actual goal had always been
> remote git storage. And the reason why we wanted to do this was because we
> figured that when working both on a computer and on a device you'd sooner
> or later run out of sync so we wanted a format that has great support for
> low bandwidth remote updates AND for easy merging if you made changes in
> two locations. And unsurprisingly we decided to use git.
>

My first thought when I read Linus's post on Google+ was that this
would allow cloud sync without the cloud provider needing to know
anything about diving. Whereas most application/cloud/app sync relies
on a domain-aware server, for this you could simply use
github/bitbucket/yourownserver.

You could then even implement a service which implements git
push/pull, but which has a full website allowing sharing, editting,
social media, etc OR with a little help from web hooks it could simply
be a passive service with no data store of its own. The possibilities
are immense. I'm very excited by this.