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SubjectRe: git pull through http / git
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Keep in mind Kernel.org uses caching on gitweb and thus gitweb itself is
not necessarily accurate / up to date. git.kernel.org also round-robins
across 4 machines which may be in various states of update, so your
fundamentally looking at a number of different possible points that may
be slightly out of sync with each other.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Chief Kernel.org Admin & Original Author of the Gitweb Caching code

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 09:22 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt :
> > On Monday 2008-07-07 18:15, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I see differences when I use git to a git.kernel.org between the one I fetch
> >> using http protocol and the one shown through the gitweb interface.
> >>
> >> I cloned (or git remote add) the mmc tree and my config shows this url :
> >> url = http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git
> >>
> >> but I see updates in :
> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git;a=summary
> >> I cannot get.
> >
> > I don't think many care about http downloading, just because it is
> > available as such.
> > git:// and rsync:// are available though and should be usable even
> > without the http info that needs to be constantly refreshed when one
> > wants to use http....
>
> If only I had the choice...
>
> You certainly know why I am using http. This feature is very useful for
> me and I was wondering why it was out of sync with the web interface.
>
> Regards,



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