From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:31:43 +1100 Message-ID: <4574CBFF.8040708@vilain.net> References: <20061130170625.GH18810@admingilde.org> <200612012355.03493.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> <200612020114.42858.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Linus Torvalds , Josef Weidendorfer , sf , git@vger.kernel.org, Martin Waitz Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060615) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GrPHu-0008G4-BE for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:40:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967999AbWLEBjv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:39:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968003AbWLEBjv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:39:51 -0500 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:47333 "EHLO magnus.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968002AbWLEBju (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:39:50 -0500 Received: by magnus.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 47BD4139B0D; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:39:48 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (longdrop.magnus.utsl.gen.nz [192.168.253.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by magnus.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CAC1380C2; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:39:42 +1300 (NZDT) To: "Michael K. Edwards" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Michael K. Edwards wrote: > who don't want to run kernel.org-scale mirrors. To make this work, > you need sparse repositories (conserving resources when fetching, by > omitting the bulk of currently un-needed submodules that can reliably > be obtained later from elsewhere) and shallow cloning (conserving > resources when publishing, by referring cloners to a third-party > repository for universally available content). Did you see GitTorrent? http://gittorrent.utsl.gen.nz/ A lot of similar ideas to what you mention. Sorry, still no prototype :) I'd see the submodules thing as a good way to glue together a whole bunch of repositories, so that the core mirror servers only have to mirror a small-ish number of repositories. Sam.