From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751453AbYGHHe7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:34:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752172AbYGHHew (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:34:52 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:42499 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751913AbYGHHev (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:34:51 -0400 Subject: Re: git pull through http / git From: "J.H." To: Nicolas Ferre Cc: Jan Engelhardt , webmaster@kernel.org, Linux Kernel list , hpa@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <487315A3.40302@atmel.com> References: <48724130.5050501@atmel.com> <487315A3.40302@atmel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:34:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1215502472.1998.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-4.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keep in mind Kernel.org uses caching on gitweb and thus gitweb itself is not necessarily accurate / up to date. git.kernel.org also round-robins across 4 machines which may be in various states of update, so your fundamentally looking at a number of different possible points that may be slightly out of sync with each other. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Admin & Original Author of the Gitweb Caching code On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 09:22 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > Jan Engelhardt : > > On Monday 2008-07-07 18:15, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I see differences when I use git to a git.kernel.org between the one I fetch > >> using http protocol and the one shown through the gitweb interface. > >> > >> I cloned (or git remote add) the mmc tree and my config shows this url : > >> url = http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git > >> > >> but I see updates in : > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git;a=summary > >> I cannot get. > > > > I don't think many care about http downloading, just because it is > > available as such. > > git:// and rsync:// are available though and should be usable even > > without the http info that needs to be constantly refreshed when one > > wants to use http.... > > If only I had the choice... > > You certainly know why I am using http. This feature is very useful for > me and I was wondering why it was out of sync with the web interface. > > Regards,