Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > But from what you're saying here that seems like a non-issue, i.e. in > such a scenario we'd just mirror the original repo[1], change the URL > in git.git to that, and then anyone could easily use older history > since it would be pointing to

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-25 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > >> Seems like it would be useful to have a way to ex-post-facto say "past >> history should use these URLs". i.e. if all git.git mirrors go down >> and we have to

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > Seems like it would be useful to have a way to ex-post-facto say "past > history should use these URLs". i.e. if all git.git mirrors go down > and we have to re-host, then you can just clone git.git and off you > go, but the same isn't true of

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > >> I liked the suggestion to make the URL a relative path, but this would >> require you to maintain a mirror in the same places you push git.git >> to, is that

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefan Beller writes: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: >> >>> I liked the suggestion to make the URL a relative path, but this would >>> require you to maintain a mirror in the

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-22 Thread Stefan Beller
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > >> I liked the suggestion to make the URL a relative path, but this would >> require you to maintain a mirror in the same places you push git.git >> to, is that

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

2017-05-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > I liked the suggestion to make the URL a relative path, but this would > require you to maintain a mirror in the same places you push git.git > to, is that something you'd be willing to do? After thinking about this a bit more, I know what I