Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261391AbVDMQru (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:47:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261394AbVDMQru (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:47:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:61641 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261391AbVDMQrq (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:47:46 -0400 Message-ID: <425D4D40.3040106@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:48:00 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Bestel CC: David Woodhouse , Petr Baudis , Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , "Randy.Dunlap" , Ross Vandegrift , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3 References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050410024157.GE3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050410162723.GC26537@pasky.ji.cz> <20050411015852.GI5902@pasky.ji.cz> <20050411135758.GA3524@pasky.ji.cz> <1113311256.20848.47.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050413094705.B1798@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050413085954.GA13251@pasky.ji.cz> <1113384304.12012.166.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1113396229.17538.134.camel@gonzales> In-Reply-To: <1113396229.17538.134.camel@gonzales> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 30 Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 à 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a écrit : > >>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: >> >>>Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work >>>in fully git environment. >> >>Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network >>bandwidth and disk space are free. > > > On a related note, maybe kernel.org should host .torrent files (and > serve them) for the kernel git repository. That would ease the pain. > /me inflicts major bodily harm on Xav. There is a reason we (kernel.org) doesn't touch Bittorrent: for a variety of reasons, Bittorrent doesn't lend itself very well to automation. Jeff Garzik and I have been sketching on a sane replacement for Bittorrent with the working name "Software Distribution Protocol", but it's not even vaporware so far. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/