Re: git-pull from git.git - no remote ref for pu or next?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612121345180.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612120949230.3535@woody.osdl.org>

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> If the public sites used git itself to synchronize git repositories, 
> they'd never see anything like this (because git itself will only write 
> the new refs after it has actually updated the data). But since the thing 
> needs mirroring for non-git uses too, and since rsync generally _works_ 
> apart from the slight race-condition issue, that's what it just uses.

Wouldn't it be a worthy goal to exclude git repos from the rsync mirroring and use git instead? The current arrangement doesn't put git in good light for the general public not reading this mailing list wrt git reliability, even if we know it is just a minor and temporary annoyance.

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