Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-13T16:47:50Z

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 à 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a écrit :
>
>>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>>
>>>Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work
>>>in fully git environment.
>>
>>Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network
>>bandwidth and disk space are free.
>
>
> On a related note, maybe kernel.org should host .torrent files (and
> serve them) for the kernel git repository. That would ease the pain.
>

/me inflicts major bodily harm on Xav.

There is a reason we (kernel.org) doesn't touch Bittorrent: for a
variety of reasons, Bittorrent doesn't lend itself very well to
automation. Jeff Garzik and I have been sketching on a sane replacement
for Bittorrent with the working name "Software Distribution Protocol",
but it's not even vaporware so far.

-hpa