Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751166AbVILDkB (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:40:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751161AbVILDkB (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:40:01 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:57286 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbVILDkA (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:40:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:39:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Junio C Hamano 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: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Message-ID: References: <20050911185711.GA22556@mars.ravnborg.org> <20050911194630.GB22951@mars.ravnborg.org> <52irx7cnw5.fsf@cisco.com> <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> 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: 1081 Lines: 26 On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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. Yes. We should probably have some well-defined meaning for relative paths in there regardless (eg just define that they are always relative to the main GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY or something). That would also allow mirrors to mirror the git archives in different places, without upsetting the result (as long as they are mirrored together). 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/