From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:03:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Current state of GIT fetch/pull clients
Message-ID: <432A19F6.8050605@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbr2tx51n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Neither http nor rsync transports know about the 'alternates'
> mechanism yet, so if a downloader does:
> 
>     $ git pull http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree
>     $ git pull rsync://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree
> 
> unless the downloader has already fetched from Linus'
> repository, this will not work.
> 
>   * In the case of rsync transport, it would slurp all objects
>     your repository has, but does not get objects from Linus'
>     repository.  Also, rsync will overwrite the
>     objects/info/alternates file the downloader has in his
>     repository with what you have in your repository, which is
>     not what we want.

Yes, this is why I don't bother with alternates at the present time. 
Users of my repos, at least, have been trained to use rsync://... and 
currently expect to get a working tree that way.

	Jeff