On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:41:14AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > I think there is room for both ideas. The cached bundle idea is not just > > "here, download this bundle first". It is "here, download this _other > > thing_ first, which might be a bundle, another git repo, a torrent, > > etc". > > Fair enough. Though I wouldn't limit this to bundles. Instead I would > suggest supporting any valid Git URLs, and then extend our URL syntax > to support bundles over http://, rsync://, and torrent. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was limited to bundles. It would support arbitrary URLs or schemes. See this thread for some past discussion: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164700 > If we support any URL and don't assume the URL is a bundle, you can > point traffic at kernel.org to for example grab Linus' primary > repository first, even if he doesn't have a bundle. Exactly. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html