From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:24:48 GMT Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <52irx7cnw5.fsf@cisco.com> 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