From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:10:16 GMT
Subject: Re: dumb transports not being welcomed..
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