Hi,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Eric Wong wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Eric Wong wrote:

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Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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Since lore.kernel.org now has the same archive as public-inbox.org and
may have more longevity going forward[1], let's recommend people use it
for finding or referencing messages.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20191120195556.GA25189@dcvr/
      or if you like:
    https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191120195556.GA25189@dcvr/ (local)

One of the things I appreciate most about https://public-inbox.org/git is
that you can clone it. I just tried this with
https://lore.kernel.org/git/...

$ git clone https://lore.kernel.org/git/  lore-git
Cloning into 'lore-git'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

Oops, that's a usability issue I hope to fix at some point.

That would be nice. As you can tell from my puzzlement, not everybody
scrolls down to the instruction (which I finally found after your
comment)...

:-D

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Is this something other people also care about?

Instructions are actually at the bottom:

   git clone --mirror https://lore.kernel.org/git/0 git/git/0.git

The "0" is the "epoch", and larger repos have multiple epochs,
roughly 1GB each. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ has 0..7, right now.

Okay, so how does that work, is the idea that you should graft them
together using replacement objects if you want to have the full archive?

And: if I want to track the latest mails in GitGitGadget, what indication
will I have that I'll need to switch to `.../1`?

Thanks,
Dscho