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From: Benson Muite <benson_muite@emailplus•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mirror repositories for submodules
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:37:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87se71r4ax.fsf@emailplus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcxy7qfgk.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Benson Muite <benson_muite@emailplus•org> writes:
>
>> Would a contribution to add mirror repositories as alternate submodule
>> sources be considered for inclusion?  Some projects have mirror
>> repositories on other hosting services, and may have bandwidth limits on
>> their primary hosting service.  Being able to indicate mirror
>> repositories for where to check for updates and sources for submodules
>> when doing `git clone --recurse-submodules https://my.repo ` or `git
>> submodule update --init --recursive` would be helpful when there is a
>> timeout.
>
> I do not see why such a "oh, the repository at $URL1 seems to be
> down, but we know $URL2 serves the equivalent information, so let's
> go there instead" feature has to be limited to submodule use case.
>
> So, no, I do not think a contribution to add mirror repositories as
> alternate submodule sources should be considered for inclusion, as
> it artificially limits usefulness of the feature.  A feature to add
> mirror repositories as alternate sources might be worth considering,
> though.

Thanks for the feedback. This was motivated by problems when trying to
recursively clone, but a more general solution is also fine.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-05  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-01  6:11 Mirror repositories for submodules Benson Muite
2026-06-04  1:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-04  5:11   ` Simon Richter
2026-06-04  6:16     ` Jeff King
2026-06-04  9:27       ` Simon Richter
2026-06-05  4:54       ` Benson Muite
2026-06-05  4:47     ` Benson Muite
2026-06-05  9:34       ` Matt Hunter
2026-06-05  5:05     ` Benson Muite
2026-06-05 12:10       ` Simon Richter
2026-06-05  4:37   ` Benson Muite [this message]
2026-06-05  4:57   ` Benson Muite

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