Re: RFC Failover url for fetches?

Jakub Narębski [off-list ref] writes:

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As to fetching from two or more places as "fallback", I am
moderately negative to add it as a dumb feature that does nothing
more than "My fetch from A failed, so let's blindly try it from B".
I'd prefer to keep the "My fetch from A is failing" knowledge near
the surface of end user's consciousness as a mechanism to pressure A
to fix it--that way everybody who is fetching from A benefits.
After all, doing "git remote add B" once (you'd need to tell the URL
for B anyway to Git) and issuing "git fetch B" after seeing your
regular "git fetch" fails once in a blue moon is not all that
cumbersome, I would think.

One would need to configure fallback B remote to use the same
remote-branch namespace as remote A, if it is to be used as fallback,
I would think.

Yeah, I left it out because I thought that was obvious, but spelling
it out explicitly may have helped those who weren't reading carefully.

Thanks