rsync service [was: Re: testmail, ignore]

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 20 July 2009 12:01:58 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Monday 20 July 2009 14:30:27 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 December 2008 00:45:52 Rob Landley wrote:
> > > We had an rsync service?
> >
> > i set it up a while ago for people to rsync the raw svn files to create
> > their own mirrors.  i also restored it at some point and now ive also
> > enabled rsync for /git/ (although it probably doesnt make as much sense
> > due to git's distributed nature).
>
> Yet, it can be usefull for those of us behind stupid firewalls that do not
> allow non-HTTP traffic, but have a SOCKS proxy.
>
> I've tried using git via a SOCKS proxy and it does not work, while rsync
> does. So using rsync as a mean to clone/pull from a git repos really makes
> sense.

ah, sounds good

> BTW, what's the rsync URL for the git repos?

should logically follow the svn style ...

$ rsync uclibc.org::
svn
git
-mike
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