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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git://anongit.gentoo.org is extremely slow
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 03:20:30
Message-Id: CAATnKFCkuEPt6Mn41zKDgSy91c_BW_U+Gh7HpA8-RqtRJi0jVQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: git://anongit.gentoo.org is extremely slow by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 23 April 2015 at 15:07, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
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3 > Perhaps the slashdot effect of everybody almost at once needing to delete
4 > and (re)add their overlays in layman, thus forcing a new clone,
5 >
6
7 Eh? That seems incredibly wrong for git.
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9 git remote set-url master <newurl>
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11 Would handle the git side.
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13 You can even tweak git to rewrite all urls for you, like:
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15 [url "git://anongit.gentoo.org"]
16 insteadOf = git://git.overlays.gentoo.org
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18 Admittedly it may have been hard for layman to be intelligent about this,
19 but requiring everyone to remove/add simply for a URI change strikes me as
20 rather odd here.
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23 --
24 Kent
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26 *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git://anongit.gentoo.org is extremely slow Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>