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

> 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.
>