Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> Does "everything" include someone doing
> 
>     git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/whatever.git

Nope. Only server-side smart protocols will handle this.

There is such an anonymous server, btw: "git-daemon" implements anonymous 
access much more efficient than rsync/http. Sadly, kernel.org still 
doesn't offer it (but it's now used in the wild, ie I've done a couple of 
merges with people running the git daemon).

> In other words, is the git network transport smart enough to handle
> the alternates path?

The _git_ network transport is. rsync and http aren't.

		Linus
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