Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > What Konstantin said about git repos being transient. > > It wasn't too much work to recreate those blobs from > > scratch since git-apply has done it since 2005. > > ;-) > > > We could get around transient repos with automatic mirroring > > bots which never deletes or overwrites anything published. > > That includes preserving pre-force-push data in case of > > force pushes. > > > >> Instead, we will have to rely on your centralized, non-distributed > >> service... > > > > I'm curious how you came to believe that, since that's the > > opposite of what public-inbox has always been intended to be. > > I think the (mis)perception comes from the fact that the website and > the newsfeed you give are both too easy to use and directly attract > end users, instead of enticing them to keep their own mirrors for > offline use. > > Thanks for injecting dose of sanity. Maybe your dose of sanity can inject a statement about the case when public-inbox.org/git differs from a mirror, and not in a fast-forwardable way? What is the authoritative source of truth, then? Ciao, Dscho
