From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:23:35 GMT
Subject: Re: announce: git browser
Message-ID: <7v1x0q2cvs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <40b2b7d90512060013j23345bf3o2021080edcfbd9c0@mail.gmail.com>

Artem Khodush <greenkaa@gmail.com> writes:

> And the reason why special NNTP server is needed is, I guess,
> that plain NNTP server will not be able to cope with all the diffs
> stored in message database? Well, but then, the newsgroups
> will not be distributable..
>
> Or is there any other reason?

Actually, the real reason was I was stupid (I am always stupid
but I was more stupid than I usually am in this case).  We could
just inject new patches into appropriate newsgroups as they come
along, either from a cron job or from the post-update hook.