On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > What if the server sends a message which current clients interprets as > an error, and which newer clients could interpret as, "do a clone from > <this> URL, and then come back and talk to me". Basically an > automated redirect to get the "Linus base pack" somewhere else, and > then to go back to the original server. It certainly doesn't make > sense to change anything about the low-level protocol, but maybe a > higher level redirect would make sense, just as a user convenience thing. I agree, a redirect might be a good idea regardless of whether it's something like "I'm a poor little NSLU2, please don't do anything but incremental updates", or whether it's something like "this repository has moved, use address xyz instead". And it should be pretty easy from a high-level protocol, although it does obviously need both server and client support. Linus - 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
