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SubjectRe: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?
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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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Dmitry
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