Re: New SCM and commit list

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 15:05:50 EST


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504111424270.1267@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > I have a feeling that the kernel.org mirror system is just going to
> > _love_ us using it to store temporary git trees :)
>
> I don't think kernel.org mirrors the private home directories, so it you
> do _temporary_ trees, just make them readable in your private home
> directory rather than in /pub/linux/kernel/people. For people with
> kernel.org accounts, we can use that as the "bkbits.net" thing.
>
> For really public hosting, we need to find some other approach.
>

It's also pretty trivial to set up an additional /pub hierarchy, like
the current /pub/scm, which is up to individual mirrors to pick up or
not to pick up. We only require /pub/linux and /pub/software to be
mirrored.

-hpa
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