From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: [ANNOUNCE] repo.or.cz now supports "project forks" Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:52:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20061024045201.GX20017@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 24 06:52:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcEGm-0003Fg-U4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:52:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752025AbWJXEwG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:52:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752028AbWJXEwF (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:52:05 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:23446 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025AbWJXEwD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:52:03 -0400 Received: (qmail 18113 invoked by uid 2001); 24 Oct 2006 06:52:01 +0200 To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, FYI, the http://repo.or.cz/ public Git hosting now supports project forking, which basically means that if you've done something cool to an existing project and want to publish your work, you can create a "fork" of the project on repo.or.cz and it will group nicely together in gitweb and users will be hinted about the possibility to use --reference when cloning your changes; also, repo.or.cz disk space will be conserved thanks to the alternates mechanism. ;-) The other main goal aside gitweb grouping wasn't achieved yet though - greatly reduced push times. Hey, pushing Git to a new repository takes inordinate amount of time (actually also mostly because all the objects are unpacked on the remote side, which is silly as well), I didn't try pushing Linux kernel to a fresh repository but it'll likely take ages. The idea would be to make git-receive-pack take alternates into account when announcing what commits does the server side have, but someone will need to code up a patch for that... It wasn't tested heavily, so please tell me about any warts you hit. Thanks, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i