Re: Git mirror at gitlab

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

On 28/12/2023 11:13, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 03:06:08PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
>> Hey Patrick,
>>
>> On December 21, 2023 12:48:12 p.m. GMT+01:00, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
>>> Not to throw a wrench into this, but are you aware of the official
>>> GitLab mirror at https://gitlab.com/git-vcs/git? I myself wasn't aware
>>> of this mirror for a rather long time.
>>
>> Not a wrench at all, and no, I didn't know. How old is it though :p
>> could be that git-vcs was created cause I owned gitscm :)
>>
>> I had chosen gitscm to match the official site, git-scm.org. the
>> hyphen I left out because afaik it wasn't allowed on docker hub.
> 
> No idea when exactly this mirror was created. The first mention of it in
> the "What's cooking" report is in December 2020, 489058b80d (What's
> cooking (2023/12 #05), 2023-12-27).

I think Ævar set it up towards the end of 2018 [1]. I think he used it 
to do some testing using the gcc compile farm [2]

Best Wishes

Phillip

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/87k1mecj96.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/875zwm15k2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/