Re: dumb transports not being welcomed..

From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2005, 14:10 UTC
Message-ID: <1126707016.14036.14.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsrcwrc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I just felt that it is a good habit to get into to prepare your
> repositories in a shape usable even when served by an HTTP
> server that is less forgiving than what kernel.org runs -- that
> was what I felt "discouraging" about.

Well, that is sort of just it, too. Why not make the default, obvious, common repo prep mechanism do all the necessary steps for proper presentation? Having to remember to do 6 steps just begs for an additional layer of scripting.

>   This means either people are
> not packing their repository (hence nobody complained), or
> public are pulling over rsync transport (which slurps everything
> in sight).  Both are good reasons to feel discouraged about.

I confess, I've been using rsync as it is what appears to be able to reliably get a repository that works.

jdl