[LLVMdev] About setting up official git & bzr mirrors.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Time ago when the svn server was crawling due to massive hammering from
people mirroring the repo, someone said that after the 2.6 release we
could discuss creating official mirrors for those who work with svn
clients based on distributed VCSs such as git and bazaar.

Such mirrors increase productivity (facilitating experimentation and
parallel tasks, allowing off-line work) and even lessens the workload of
the svn server, as lots of expensive operations (log, annotate,
bisecting, etc) are performed locally.

There is a git mirror that works quite well, but there is no bazaar
mirror and it is impossible to create one due to the measures taken for
preventing svn server abuse.

I'm not going to start a technical discussion (aka flamewar) comparing
git and bzr. I hope it is enough to say that some of us prefer bzr to
git and mostly want to avoid using git on Windows.

So I'm asking to the powers that be some collaboration, either for
mirroring themselves the llvm repos (llvm, clang, maybe gcc too), or for
whitelisting some machine that would hold the master bzr mirror.

-- 
Óscar