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

[Tanya Lattner]

On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> 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.
>

We have new LLVM server that is being set up (delayed because I was  
working on 2.6). I'd like to postpone this discussion until that is  
finished (which I don't have an ETA, but hopefully over the next few  
weeks).

Thanks,
Tanya