Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:
quoted
So the separate action of replication is not tracked?
Correct. Replication without changes is a no-op.
I think it could be reasonably argued that knowing when the head(s)
of your public repository on a mirror of kernel.org changed to a
given value is useful. Especially when there is a mirroring lag.
--
Shawn.