Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? | Date | Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:45:33 -0500 |
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On Sunday 11 September 2005 20:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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".
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