From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:36:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Git benchmark - comparison with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial
Message-ID: <87hcnj9el8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <85vebzrufc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

* David Kastrup:

> Couldn't git clone http://host/directory/to/repo tell the proxy that
> it should enter off-line mode and stop updating?

Huh? I don't see how this is relevant to the current thread.

Anyway, I don't think the max-stale cache control mechanism is widely
implemented.  If you want effective expiry controls, you need to
implement them on the server side.