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Re: Is there such a thing as a git:// proxy?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 18, 2006, 17:02 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0606180953510.5498@g5.osdl.org>
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<20060618124250.15471.qmail@science.horizon.com>
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, linux@horizon.com wrote:
> 
> Has anyone put together something that can automatically check
> upstream for updates when someone fetches from it?

Well, there's actually a much easier solution: just add a "pre-pull" hook to "git-send-objects", and then have that hook check the real remote.

Does anybody see any problems with that?
		Linus
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