Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-09-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the expected filesystem layout documented somewhere online (_external_ to the source code) ? There already was a sketchy description in git(7), at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ I've updated it a bit to describe the current status;

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-31 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:25:22 -0700 Junio C Hamano wrote: Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is alternates unthinkable with URLs (e.g. remote alternates). In order to read an object data, the low level core GIT layer does open()/mmap() of a file on the locally mounted filesystem.

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Sergey Vlasov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All this means that currently there is no clean way to publish a partial GIT repository, unless you place it at the same server where the base repository is located (and even in that case needing to use something like echo

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: Please do a pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/ppc64-2.6.git Gaah. This is not a valid git repository. Guys, if you do partially populated repositories, _please_ make sure that you still make it a valid git

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-29 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:32:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: Please do a pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/ppc64-2.6.git Gaah. This is not a valid git repository. Guys, if you do partially populated

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Russell King wrote: Is the expected filesystem layout documented somewhere online (_external_ to the source code) ? Nope, I don't think so. Alternatively, when changes occur to the repostory format, please can they be marked with some obvious subject so that folk

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-29 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:02:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: The objects/info/alternates thing is an extension, which allows you to have a partial object store, and point to the rest of it, and still have all the tools understand it and be able to parse the totality of it. So it doesn't

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: echo /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/objects objects/info/alternates Did that (s/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.git/ actually...) What can one put in the alternates file? Just an absolute path, or does a relative path or a URL work too? or similar. That

Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: What can one put in the alternates file? Just an absolute path, or does a relative path or a URL work too? Only an absolute path. URL's fundamentally do not work, and relative paths end up being parsed as relative to where-ever the user happens