linux-kernel - Re: git pull through http / git

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Message-ID: <4873DA2A.5040200@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:20:42 -0400
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
CC:	"J.H." <warthog19@...lescrag.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, webmaster@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	hpa@...nel.org
Subject: Re: git pull through http / git

Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> J.H. :
>> Keep in mind Kernel.org uses caching on gitweb and thus gitweb itself is
>> not necessarily accurate / up to date.  git.kernel.org also round-robins
>> across 4 machines which may be in various states of update, so your
>> fundamentally looking at a number of different possible points that may
>> be slightly out of sync with each other.
> 
> Ok, I understand.
> I am talking about a 3 days old commit. Is this normal to have no update 
>  from the http side ?
> I yes, I will wait...
> 

You're trying to do a git pull via http (as opposed to gitweb)?  Then 
that is dependent on the owner of the repository having enabled
"git update-server-info".

Overall, avoid pulling git via http.  It's just plain broken.

	-hpa
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