One benefit of uploading things immediately is that you can launch a research job, run CI, or share code between all of your developer environments absolutely trivially. The commit hash "just works everywhere". There is a major benefit here and Scion does have some extra features not listed in this blog post, such as the ability to bundle these commits into useful, shareable workspaces that track the heads dynamically.
replySure, I'm not saying that I don't like the ability to very quickly do a push to some remote and potentially temporary spot. I just also want the ability to not do this without loss of functionality.
replyPractically speaking, we could build local commit buffering for when the server is offline, but then the client needs to also learn how to do all of the things the server currently knows how to do (and would still never be able to answer more complex "full-graph" questions, like history, blame, or merge base ancestry).
replySince Claude is by far the heaviest user of Scion and is necessarily online, this just wasn't important to do.
As an almost-on-topic aside: completely unrelated to this comment, I just stumbled upon this delight:
replyhttps://github.com/openai/codex/issues/53743
If you thought that your agents in your swarm would need to find some external bulletin board to cooperate behind your back, you are mistaken: OpenAI provides the relevant service for them with no permission prompts at all. I haven't tried to see whether competing providers do this.
Yes and they have no choice. And that matters.
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