Re: Maintaining site-wide clones

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 17:22 UTC
Message-ID: <slrngmcdj4.i8d.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0901081129500.19665@iabervon.org>

On 2009-01-08, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

> Is there a good way of handling a setup where the canonical repository is 
> in some slow foreign system and you want a lot of git clones? I've been 
> using a bare repository that I import into and clone, but then I need to 
> go to the bare repository to update anything, which is vaguely annoying.

Why?  You can push to it too?

I don't have your use case but if I did, I'd do this:
 - everyone clones from the local mirror
 - one person clones the slow foreign system at whatever
   interval he thinks appropriate, and pushes to the local
   mirror
 - (or the local mirror can do this via cron)

This works fine if you can sort of judge the average frequency of updates, and not getting some of them *immediately* is not earth shattering for local developers.

If the slow foreign system lets you put in a post-commit hook that'll be even easier -- no more guesswork!