Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 03:56:21AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > Hey all, I just added this to the TODO file for public-inbox[1] but > > obviously it's intended for git.git (meta@public-inbox cc-ed): > > > > > +* Contribute something like IMAP IDLE for "git fetch". > > > + Inboxes (and any git repos) can be kept up-to-date without > > > + relying on polling. > > > > I would've thought somebody had done this by now, but I guess > > it's dependent on a bunch of things (TLS layer nowadays, maybe > > HTTP/2), so git-daemon support alone wouldn't cut it... > > Polling is not all bad, especially for large repository collections. I'm > not sure you want to "idle" individual repositories when there's > thousands of them. We ended up writing grokmirror for replicating > repo collections using manifest files. I wasn't intending it for giant sites like korg, but for individual hackers on their workstations tracking a handful of projects they follow. The cost for a hackers' machine would be the same as the current situation where developers idle on IRC channels for the projects they're involved in. > > Anyways, until this is implemented, feel free to continue > > hammering a way on https://public-inbox.org/git/ with frequent > > "git fetch". I write C10K servers in my sleep -_- > > The archive is also mirrored at > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/public-inbox/vger.kernel.org/git.git, and > also on kernel.googlesource.com. Now, I'm wondering if you can make a v2 public-inbox mirror of git@vger and run it on lore. Converting public-inbox.org/git to v2 would break things for everybody fetching, right now :<
