Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: recommend lore.kernel.org over public-inbox.org

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 28, 2019, 10:25 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1911281123100.31080@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20191127200421.GA27456@dcvr>

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > > > Since lore.kernel.org now has the same archive as public-inbox.org and
> > > > may have more longevity going forward[1], let's recommend people use it
> > > > for finding or referencing messages.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20191120195556.GA25189@dcvr/
> > > >       or if you like:
> > > >     https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191120195556.GA25189@dcvr/
> >
> > One of the things I appreciate most about https://public-inbox.org/git is
> > that you can clone it. I just tried this with
> > https://lore.kernel.org/git/...
> >
> > $ git clone https://lore.kernel.org/git/  lore-git
> > Cloning into 'lore-git'...
> > warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
>
> Oops, that's a usability issue I hope to fix at some point.

That would be nice. As you can tell from my puzzlement, not everybody scrolls down to the instruction (which I finally found after your comment)...

:-D

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> > Is this something other people also care about?
>
> Instructions are actually at the bottom:
>
>    git clone --mirror https://lore.kernel.org/git/0 git/git/0.git
>
> The "0" is the "epoch", and larger repos have multiple epochs,
> roughly 1GB each. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ has 0..7, right now.

Okay, so how does that work, is the idea that you should graft them together using replacement objects if you want to have the full archive?

And: if I want to track the latest mails in GitGitGadget, what indication
will I have that I'll need to switch to `.../1`?

Thanks, Dscho