Re: dumb transports not being welcomed..

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I just felt that it is a good habit to get into to prepare your
repositories in a shape usable even when served by an HTTP
server that is less forgiving than what kernel.org runs -- that
was what I felt "discouraging" about.

Well, that is sort of just it, too.  Why not make the
default, obvious, common repo prep mechanism do all
the necessary steps for proper presentation?  Having
to remember to do 6 steps just begs for an additional
layer of scripting.

  This means either people are
not packing their repository (hence nobody complained), or
public are pulling over rsync transport (which slurps everything
in sight).  Both are good reasons to feel discouraged about.

I confess, I've been using rsync as it is what appears
to be able to reliably get a repository that works.

jdl