Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750936AbVIKVe1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:34:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750932AbVIKVe0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:34:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54168 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbVIKVeZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:34:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:33:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Roland Dreier cc: Sam Ravnborg , Peter Osterlund , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050911185711.GA22556@mars.ravnborg.org> <20050911194630.GB22951@mars.ravnborg.org> <52irx7cnw5.fsf@cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 20 On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The _git_ network transport is. rsync and http aren't. 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. IOW, this is not a fundamental problem with alternates, it's just that since there is no server-side smarts to handle it (ie just raw file access with rsync/http), it needs to be handled at the client side instead. Linus - 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/