Re: emacs.git mirror status

[Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> But the pull dropped out with merge conflicts.
>
> Of course, it does.  Much of the history has been rewritten.
>
>> Note: that can be a general problem with the http repository access:
>> it is not efficient.
>
> All the work is done on the client, the server just provides the packs
> and tags for download (as you can easily see: after the packs are
> downloaded no further communication is done).  Note that the tree was
> freshly gc'd as of yesterday.  This really does not have anything to do
> with the transport.
>
>> So if your server setup does not allow anything else, maybe you could
>> check with Jim whether it would be feasible to push this into the
>> "official" Emacs git mirror?
>
> The tree is meant to be temporary, only for testing.

If you guys are happy with Andreas' tree, let me know.
Then I'll put it on savannah and use it as a basis when
sync'ing every 30-40min.