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

Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11T21:24:55Z

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> Does "everything" include someone doing
>
> git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/whatever.git

Nope. Only server-side smart protocols will handle this.

There is such an anonymous server, btw: "git-daemon" implements anonymous
access much more efficient than rsync/http. Sadly, kernel.org still
doesn't offer it (but it's now used in the wild, ie I've done a couple of
merges with people running the git daemon).

> In other words, is the git network transport smart enough to handle
> the alternates path?

The _git_ network transport is. rsync and http aren't.

Linus