Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751135AbVILCpk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:45:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbVILCpk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:45:40 -0400 Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.91]:28249 "HELO smtp114.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751134AbVILCpk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:45:40 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:45:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Sam Ravnborg , Peter Osterlund , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509112145.33994.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 31 On Sunday 11 September 2005 20:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. > Call me brain-dead but all of this just makes me rsync my tree to kernel.org and then manually do "ln -f" for all the packs that Linus has. This way I am sure tht the tree is what I have plus and it is "pullable". -- Dmitry - 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/