From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 06:24:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1BvMB_Y74eK4Ca1HEzbqiGVCgKp=45Wiu=aQuTXOd-5UZQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvckgbew5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 06:21, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Here's a start for a more precise discussion.
>
> When does the "Cache server" updated from the "$uri_for_central_repo" in
> this picture?  If it is after push by either from Machine A or B, somebody
> needs to reconcile that and whatever A/B pushed.
>
> And between Hg style "split head" or Git style refs/remotes/* namespaces
> there is no difference to perform that reconcilation.  Somebody needs to
> run "merge" on the "Cache server" and at some point the result needs to be
> pushed to the $uri_for_central_repo back.
>
> So...

Examples of pushing to the central repo and updating the cache repo
are given at the bottom.