I mean, you can if you want. But the finger spec doesn’t actually specify a format for the returned data, so anything can be in there. Fingies just reads data from a text file and returns that. So finger foo@server would just have fingies read the file named <data_dir>/foo and respond with whatever is in that file. It could be a real name, address, and phone number, or just a silly greeting.
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Yoink! New project logo haha ;P
Great question! I considered that, it’s what lead me to the idea to use DNS in the first place. The problem I had with that is that the ultimate URL path might change, not just the hostname. What happens if a repo has to move from github.com/org/repo to mycoolforge.net/repo?
But there’s also another reason that I realized as I was working out the details of git-remote-helpers: What happens if your remote needs to change protocols? With doink you can swap from http(s) to ftp with an ip address instead of a hostname, or perhaps even some (future) git-over-whatever-p2p-network.
So yeah if you’re swapping from a github-style forge to another github-style forge and you don’t need the flexibility, you definitely could just CNAME it! And that would probably be more robust, but it would also give you less future flexibility :P
It is now lol
I’m bad at naming things, so it was originally GHA (for github archiver, changed to good helpful archiver because trademark), but I kept misspelling it as GAH so it was just easier to change the name.
But the reference is way better :P
sourcehut is almost everything I want from a git forge! the ability for people to contribute or file bug reports without an account is great, and it’s not tied to a horrible corporation. it’s right up my alley, when I’m not making silly things like fingies, I’m working on stuff like doink and gah to make it easier for people to leave corporate git forges :)