From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:45:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509112145.33994.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Sunday 11 September 2005 20:39, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > Btw, there's no reason why a client-side thing couldn't just parse the
> > "alternates" thing, and if it doesn't find the objects in the main object
> > directory, go and fetch them from the alternates itself.
>
> There is.
>
> For kernel.org, you could say '/pub/scm/blah' in your alternates
> and expect it to work, only because http://kernel.org/pub
> hierarchy happens to match the absolute path /pub on the
> filesystem, but for most people's default HTTP server
> installation, they would need to say /var/www/scm/blah to have
> alternate work locally, but somebody has to know that the named
> directory is served as http://machine.xz/pub/scm/blah somewhere.
>
Call me brain-dead but all of this just makes me rsync my tree to
kernel.org and then manually do "ln -f" for all the packs that Linus
has. This way I am sure tht the tree is what I have plus and it is
"pullable".
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-12 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-09-11 19:06 ` What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11 19:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-11 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11 21:09 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-11 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-12 2:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-09-12 18:42 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-12 3:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13 7:05 ` [PATCH] Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics Junio C Hamano
2005-09-13 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-13 16:31 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-09-12 17:10 ` What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-12 18:22 ` Tony Luck
2005-09-12 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
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