Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah git mirror?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
   > Would it make sense to somehow split git clone from "logged in user"
   > when doing git clone, and have two servers ... the idea would be to
   > reduce load on git.gnu.org.

   That is an excellent idea.  And as it turns out we have been working
   on just such a thing.  I have been hesitant to mention it because
   things are still in that experimental stage and perhaps not fully
   stable.  But things seem to be making progress so I guess I will
   mention it and let you try it out.

That is very lovley news!

   [Aside: Where is git.gnu.org documented?  I recall this being
   reported as not working a few years ago and we just made it point to
   git.savannah.gnu.org because we didn't know what else it would point
   to but also not having seen it documented anywhere.  I have always
   assumed this was something list in the sands of time.]

git.gnu.org has "always" been an alias for git.sv.gnu.org; similar
with svn.gnu.org, cvs.gnu.org, etc.  It has always worked for me,
since I cannot be bothered typing the whole thing.  Not sure what
documentation you are refering too.

   For git fetch operations from the read-only node feel free to try
   these un-certificated protocol URLs.  I think the naming for these is
   fairly stable.  I will list them as examples using grep because the
   paths are somewhat different for each of them and I think having a
   working example is useful.

       git clone git://git.git.savannah.gnu.org/grep.git
       git clone http://http.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grep.git

Is the intent to make this magic from the users side when this gets
fully implemented, so that git clone http://git.gnu.org/.. does the
right thing, and the authenticaed to the same git.gnu.org does the
right things?

Reason asking is that bots and CI/CD don't have much empathy to do the
right thing, so URLs will stay as they are ...

   >   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/mygroup.git

   I have no plans to propagate the /r raw mode service.  

I'm not sure what this means, or is ...

   A personal note from me.  I am currently on travel.  I am actually
   sitting on the deck of a sailboat typing this at the moment.  I am
   offline much of the day and some days completely.  It depends upon
   where we are going with the boat and what needs to be happening while
   on it.  I am working through recent tragic events and for those who
   know this is a very good activity for me.  I will be on the net as I
   can be and will be working on specific targeted things as I can work
   on them.  And at the moment I have caught some germ from the airline,
   or from before, or something and am rather sick with a respiratory
   ailment of some type.  I feel okay mostly.  But if you heard my voice
   right now you would definitely believe that I am sick!  I am being
   sent to the clinic here in a few minutes because of it.

Happy sailing, happy hacking and a happy speedy recovery!