Re: git-daemon on NSLU2

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 27, 2007, 16:26 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708270923590.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070827110318.GB4680@thunk.org>

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

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> 
> What if the server sends a message which current clients interprets as
> an error, and which newer clients could interpret as, "do a clone from
> <this> URL, and then come back and talk to me".  Basically an
> automated redirect to get the "Linus base pack" somewhere else, and
> then to go back to the original server.  It certainly doesn't make
> sense to change anything about the low-level protocol, but maybe a
> higher level redirect would make sense, just as a user convenience thing.

I agree, a redirect might be a good idea regardless of whether it's something like "I'm a poor little NSLU2, please don't do anything but incremental updates", or whether it's something like "this repository has moved, use address xyz instead".

And it should be pretty easy from a high-level protocol, although it does obviously need both server and client support.

			Linus