Tony Luck wrote: > > At least part of the problem for kernel.org is that there around 50 repositories > that are tracking the 2.6 kernel. All of them have 50,000 objects that are > duplicates of each other ... and a few hundred 'unique' objects that belong > to just one repo, or are minimally shared. > > If there was a way to specify an alternate repo, then a large GIT server like > kernel.org could set up a "git-history"[1] repo which each of the hosted repos > could point to. Then a cron job could look for duplicates, and move them > off to the history area. > This is why I've been talking about a global object repository -- including the problems associated with them. git as it currently stands permit a single global object store, *except* for the issue of duplicate tags. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Jul 09 18:05:24 2005
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