Michael K. Edwards wrote:
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> who don't want to run kernel.org-scale mirrors.  To make this work,
> you need sparse repositories (conserving resources when fetching, by
> omitting the bulk of currently un-needed submodules that can reliably
> be obtained later from elsewhere) and shallow cloning (conserving
> resources when publishing, by referring cloners to a third-party
> repository for universally available content).

Did you see GitTorrent?  http://gittorrent.utsl.gen.nz/  A lot of
similar ideas to what you mention.  Sorry, still no prototype :)

I'd see the submodules thing as a good way to glue together a whole
bunch of repositories, so that the core mirror servers only have to
mirror a small-ish number of repositories.

Sam.

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