llvm dev - Mar 2010 - [LLVMdev] [repository] Make LLVM repository Git-clonable

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at mit.edu>
wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim
> <michael.silvanus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> git svn clone --no-minimize-url -s
http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm llvm
>> Initialized empty Git repository in
/home/inf2/i2staff/salim/checkout/llvm/.git/
>> RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403
>> Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for
>> '/svn/llvm-project/!svn/vcc/default' at /usr/lib/git/git-svn
line 5047
>>
>> Any idea if this could be rectified?
>
> Several months ago it was determined that people scraping SVN history
> into their DVCS clones were hosing the server, so some attempt was
> made to forbid that, which I think you are running into.
>
A good solution, surely, would be to anoint a single official
Git/Mercurial mirror, and announce it in the same page as the SVN
checkout instructions?

Thanks,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim

> A good solution, surely, would be to anoint a single official
> Git/Mercurial mirror, and announce it in the same page as the SVN
> checkout instructions?
MRI Ruby interpreter development did that and it seems to working fine.  Of
interest is their handling of branches and tags as discussed by Vladimir and
Eric in this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-core-google/browse_thread/thread/e58d31e49cd4153b/f1e3c020cdc815d6

Jon

On Mar 28, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Jon wrote:
>> A good solution, surely, would be to anoint a single official
>> Git/Mercurial mirror, and announce it in the same page as the SVN
>> checkout instructions?
> 
> MRI Ruby interpreter development did that and it seems to working fine.  Of
interest is their handling of branches and tags as discussed by Vladimir and
Eric in this post:
FWIW, One aim of the new llvm.org server is for it to host an 'official'
live git mirror.

-Chris