Re: RFC Failover url for fetches?

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>> As to fetching from two or more places as "fallback", I am
>> moderately negative to add it as a dumb feature that does nothing
>> more than "My fetch from A failed, so let's blindly try it from B".
>> I'd prefer to keep the "My fetch from A is failing" knowledge near
>> the surface of end user's consciousness as a mechanism to pressure A
>> to fix it--that way everybody who is fetching from A benefits.
>> After all, doing "git remote add B" once (you'd need to tell the URL
>> for B anyway to Git) and issuing "git fetch B" after seeing your
>> regular "git fetch" fails once in a blue moon is not all that
>> cumbersome, I would think.
>
> One would need to configure fallback B remote to use the same
> remote-branch namespace as remote A, if it is to be used as fallback,
> I would think.

Yeah, I left it out because I thought that was obvious, but spelling
it out explicitly may have helped those who weren't reading carefully.

Thanks