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

Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-11T18:55:21Z

>
> 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).

Can you post a small description how to utilize this method?

What I've done lately has been to cp -al your .git archive.
This works well when I get everything merged up and has been my lazy
method to avoid doing merges yet (being cogito user I do not trust merge
atm. because I have mixed up older cogito with newest git).

Sam