From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Sparse homepage moved; Git repository moving soon [Re: update 'getting sparse' info.] Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:31:55 -0700 Message-ID: <45F7346B.6040605@zytor.com> References: <20070309004526.GA17459@redhat.com> <45F0B45C.9060706@zytor.com> <45F1AD49.1080604@zytor.com> <45F73351.5080505@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:49685 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752194AbXCMXcH (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:32:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <45F73351.5080505@kernel.org> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Triplett Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , ftpadmin@kernel.org Josh Triplett wrote: > > However, I know that other people sometimes maintain Sparse Git repositories, > and as far as I can tell, "people" directories only exist under > /pub/linux/kernel/people. Where should people keep Sparse repos, if not > there? > What we do is to, on request, create directories like /pub/scm/devel/sparse/ for that kind of stuff. Let us know who needs them. (This is one of many reasons you tend to see /pub/scm/foo/bar/bar.git as the repository path, another one is so the maintainer can create additional repositories as needed.) > Also, if possible, I'd like to have an HTTP 301 redirect from > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/josh/sparse (and everything under > it, via RedirectMatch) to the corresponding page under the new homepage at > http://kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse . Could someone with the > appropriate access please do so, or let me know if I can do so somehow? I *think* you can just put an .htaccess file in your directory to have that happen. However, please note that the URL should be http://www.kernel.org/... ; it may matter in the future. -hpa