Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751128AbVILBjx (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:39:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751127AbVILBjw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:39:52 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]:8890 "EHLO fed1rmmtao09.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbVILBjw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:39:52 -0400 From: Junio C Hamano To: Linus Torvalds 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? References: <20050911185711.GA22556@mars.ravnborg.org> <20050911194630.GB22951@mars.ravnborg.org> <52irx7cnw5.fsf@cisco.com> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:39:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:33:19 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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: 1076 Lines: 25 Linus Torvalds 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. Client side smarts need some help from the user here to know that '/var/www/scm/blah' read off of objects/info/alternates match that URL. - 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/