Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?
- From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Sep 11, 2005, 21:33 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111431400.3242@g5.osdl.org>
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- <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111422510.3242@g5.osdl.org>
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > The _git_ network transport is. rsync and http aren't.
Btw, there's no reason why a client-side thing couldn't just parse the "alternates" thing, and if it doesn't find the objects in the main object directory, go and fetch them from the alternates itself.
IOW, this is not a fundamental problem with alternates, it's just that since there is no server-side smarts to handle it (ie just raw file access with rsync/http), it needs to be handled at the client side instead.
Linus