From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:21:06 +1000 Message-ID: <4262C532.4070203@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 17 22:21:07 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNGFy-0007rx-Ke for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:20:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261464AbVDQUYI (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:24:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261527AbVDQUWu (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:22:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:14465 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261517AbVDQUV1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:21:27 -0400 Received: from [172.18.240.151] ([203.53.50.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3HKL9vS032269 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:21:15 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, nobody really objected to the notion of leaving the kernel history > behind for now, and in fact most people seemed to basically agree. So with > that decided, the old kernel testing tree was actually perfectly ok, > except it had been build up with the old-style commit date handling, which > made me not want to use it as a base for any real work. > > So I re-created the dang thing (hey, it takes just a few minutes), and > pushed it out, and there's now an archive on kernel.org in my public > "personal" directory called "linux-2.6.git". I'll continue the tradition > of naming git-archive directories as "*.git", since that really ends up > being the ".git" directory for the checked-out thing. > > I'm not going to announce it on linux-kernel yet, because I don't think > it's useful to anybody but a git person anyway. Besides, I don't actually > know how happy the kernel.org people are about this distribution method > and whether it ends up being a horrible disaster for the mirroring setup. > > Peter made some noises about /pub/scm, which makes sense, and would be a > better place than my public tree. Apparently there are other places that > are willing and able to host things too, so we'll see. > I would suggest something like /pub/scm/kernel/git/ on kernel.org. This is easy to do, and being outside the "mirrored worldwide" set shouldn't cause anyone any issues. /pub/linux/... is mirrored worldwide and that might cause some consternation. If this is OK with everyone I'll try to set them up (I'm at LCA at the moment, so I might have limited connectivity at any one particular moment in time.) -hpa