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Worldwide Mirrors of git.kernel.org

72 points by SriniK 14y ago

ComputerGuru 14y ago
I don't think there's anything really to be said here other than wow and thanks. Honestly, it's nice to have the biggest web company just reach out and lend a hand to random projects around the net. From JQuery to Linux. That's pretty impressive. People will post about ulterior motives and incentives, but at the end of the day, it's just a good thing (TM).
- diminish 14y ago
  I agree, Google moves the kernel to a bigger bandwidth capacity and that is something to be thankful.
  - dsl 14y ago
    kernel.org is hosted by ISC... beside one of the root DNS servers, distributed.net, debian.org, openbsd.org, and a few others. They were not hurting for bandwidth.
    - obtu 14y ago
      There were problems of availability for a while after kernel.org got hacked, admins weren't very quick to restore services from a blank slate (I believe git access took four weeks). Some developers mirrored their stuff on github or repo.or.cz, but it wasn't systematic. Auto-mirroring by Google will make verification and disaster-recovery easier and faster.
sparknlaunch12 14y ago
"This mirror service is backed by the same high speed infrastructure that hosts the Android Open Source Project, which already serves more than 1 terabyte of data and 2.5 million requests each day." Nice specs!
- deleted 14y ago
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octoploid 14y ago
They should add sourceware.org (glibc, gcc, etc.) to their git mirrors, because this one is often painfully slow.
octoploid 14y ago
Hmm, it looks like they don't support the git protocol (only https), which makes the mirrors pretty useless.
- jsprinkles 14y ago
  Can't Git clone from HTTP?
  - octoploid 14y ago
    Looks like they've fixed the old dumb http protocol in git: http://kasunh.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/git-over-https/ http://kasunh.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/git-over-https/ So I must apologize for my former comment.
- tonfa 14y ago
  You do know that git has smart http since a while?
obtu 14y ago
Other subdomains: https://chromium.googlesource.com/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/ https://android.googlesource.com/ https://android.googlesource.com/ https://android-review.googlesource.com/ https://android-review.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/ https://*-review.googlesource.com/ https://*-review.googlesource.com/

72 points by SriniK 14y ago

I don't think there's anything really to be said here other than wow and thanks. Honestly, it's nice to have the biggest web company just reach out and lend a hand to random projects around the net. From JQuery to Linux. That's pretty impressive. People will post about ulterior motives and incentives, but at the end of the day, it's just a good thing (TM).

diminish 14y ago
I agree, Google moves the kernel to a bigger bandwidth capacity and that is something to be thankful.
- dsl 14y ago
  kernel.org is hosted by ISC... beside one of the root DNS servers, distributed.net, debian.org, openbsd.org, and a few others. They were not hurting for bandwidth.
  - obtu 14y ago
    There were problems of availability for a while after kernel.org got hacked, admins weren't very quick to restore services from a blank slate (I believe git access took four weeks). Some developers mirrored their stuff on github or repo.or.cz, but it wasn't systematic. Auto-mirroring by Google will make verification and disaster-recovery easier and faster.

sparknlaunch12 14y ago

"This mirror service is backed by the same high speed infrastructure that hosts the Android Open Source Project, which already serves more than 1 terabyte of data and 2.5 million requests each day." Nice specs!

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octoploid 14y ago

They should add sourceware.org (glibc, gcc, etc.) to their git mirrors, because this one is often painfully slow.

octoploid 14y ago

Hmm, it looks like they don't support the git protocol (only https), which makes the mirrors pretty useless.

jsprinkles 14y ago
Can't Git clone from HTTP?
- octoploid 14y ago
  Looks like they've fixed the old dumb http protocol in git: http://kasunh.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/git-over-https/ http://kasunh.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/git-over-https/ So I must apologize for my former comment.
tonfa 14y ago
You do know that git has smart http since a while?

obtu 14y ago

Other subdomains: https://chromium.googlesource.com/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/ https://android.googlesource.com/ https://android.googlesource.com/ https://android-review.googlesource.com/ https://android-review.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/ https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/ https://*-review.googlesource.com/ https://*-review.googlesource.com/