From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Cloning from kernel.org, then switching to another repo Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:33:20 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910711120557w62a9966bvb61a02a2bf9b99e9@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711120736g31e3e84cx5a213afc4b889de7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711120822x18019fe6v40eb8ee0e48282dd@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711120921q651208cby1276426ccd4b5fa4@mail.gmail.com> <20071113042017.GB9745@sigill.intra.peff.net> <9e4733910711122030q7bbf6057ubb6b5b27e1885500@mail.gmail.com> <7vy7d2rmb8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <9e4733910711131127i15fb1e41g54752bc10bb28239@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 13 20:39:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Is1bp-0007tW-Og for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:39:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756604AbXKMTjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:39:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754784AbXKMTjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:39:23 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38916 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754595AbXKMTjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:39:23 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Is1Z4-00085R-OW for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:36:50 +0000 Received: from abwy6.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.248.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:36:50 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abwy6.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:36:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abwy6.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl wrote: > Could we add an alternates entry on the server that would cause the > client to first go fetch all objects the alternate has, then come back > and fetch from the initial server with a normal fetch? It's like a URL > redirect. You wouldn't fetch heads or tags from the alternate, just > all of the objects. objects/info/git-alternates, similar to objects/info/http-alternates? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git