Re: git and "dumb protocols"

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Matthieu Moy wrote:

I'll probably do, but my concern is broader than that. I like the
ability to use almost any webhosting service for my revision control.
GNU Arch was quite good at that, bzr is also (doesn't support webdav
very well yet, but read-only-HTTP, sftp and ftp are there), so I'd
like git to do the same.

You should be able to put together the repository you want hosted locally 
and use any webhosting service updating procedure to update what's hosted. 
AFAIK, git.kernel.org is a completely dumb mirror of master.kernel.org, 
working like that.

The main thing is that you want "objects" to be updated before "refs", and 
you don't want to do any git operations during the mirroring. But it's not 
even that important, so long as whenever you leave the mirror for a while, 
it matches some final state (with respect to git) of the master.

What you actually care about the git-native stuff for is preparing the 
master image, so that you don't have random cruft from your working 
repository, and then you just want it to mirror efficiently.

	-Daniel