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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	webmaster@kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	hpa@kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pull through http / git
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:20:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4873DA2A.5040200@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4873794F.8010508@atmel.com>

Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> J.H. :
>> Keep in mind Kernel.org uses caching on gitweb and thus gitweb itself is
>> not necessarily accurate / up to date.  git.kernel.org also round-robins
>> across 4 machines which may be in various states of update, so your
>> fundamentally looking at a number of different possible points that may
>> be slightly out of sync with each other.
> 
> Ok, I understand.
> I am talking about a 3 days old commit. Is this normal to have no update 
>  from the http side ?
> I yes, I will wait...
> 

You're trying to do a git pull via http (as opposed to gitweb)?  Then 
that is dependent on the owner of the repository having enabled
"git update-server-info".

Overall, avoid pulling git via http.  It's just plain broken.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-08 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-07 16:15 git pull through http / git Nicolas Ferre
2008-07-07 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-07 18:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-07 18:58     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-08  3:31       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-08  7:22   ` Nicolas Ferre
2008-07-08  7:34     ` J.H.
2008-07-08 14:27       ` Nicolas Ferre
2008-07-08 21:20         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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