Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 11:49:18 EST


Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 Ã 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a Ãcrit :

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work
in fully git environment.

Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network
bandwidth and disk space are free.


On a related note, maybe kernel.org should host .torrent files (and
serve them) for the kernel git repository. That would ease the pain.


/me inflicts major bodily harm on Xav.

There is a reason we (kernel.org) doesn't touch Bittorrent: for a variety of reasons, Bittorrent doesn't lend itself very well to automation. Jeff Garzik and I have been sketching on a sane replacement for Bittorrent with the working name "Software Distribution Protocol", but it's not even vaporware so far.

-hpa
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