Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11T16:12:48Z

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote:
>
> Since about 20 hours ago, it seems the
> linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ archive on www.kernel.org
> alternates between at least two different HEAD commits.

Are there perhaps two different front-end machines? And mirroring
problems?

> Does anyone else see this? "host www.kernel.org" gives me two IP
> addresses:
>
> www.kernel.org is an alias for zeus-pub.kernel.org.
> zeus-pub.kernel.org has address 204.152.191.5
> zeus-pub.kernel.org has address 204.152.191.37
>
> Is it possible that one of those computers hasn't received the latest
> changes for some reason?

Absolutely. The mirroring has been slow again lately. I've packed my
archive, but I suspect others should much more aggressively now be using
the "objects/info/alternates" information to point to my tree, so that
they don't even need to have their objects at all (no packing
even necessary - just running "git prune-packed" on peoples archives
would get rid of any duplicate objects when I pack mine).

Linus