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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 11, 2005, 21:24 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111422510.3242@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> Does "everything" include someone doing
> 
>     git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/whatever.git
Nope. Only server-side smart protocols will handle this.

There is such an anonymous server, btw: "git-daemon" implements anonymous access much more efficient than rsync/http. Sadly, kernel.org still doesn't offer it (but it's now used in the wild, ie I've done a couple of merges with people running the git daemon).

> In other words, is the git network transport smart enough to handle
> the alternates path?
The _git_ network transport is. rsync and http aren't.
		Linus
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  1. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  2. Sam RavnborgSep 11, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  4. Roland DreierSep 11, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  8. Dmitry TorokhovSep 12, 2005
  9. Ryan AndersonSep 12, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  11. Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.Junio C Hamano, Sep 13, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 13, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  14. Daniel BarkalowSep 13, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinSep 12, 2005
  16. Tony LuckSep 12, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005

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