Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/11/2009 11:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> That's already possible via the git-commits-head@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx email 
> list. Anyone can subscribe to it and can procmail process it. It is also 
> more secure (and less intrusive to the tree owner) than any post-push 
> hook script running under the pusher's UID. Polling via cron is really 
> not required i think.
> 

There are a couple of disadvantages with this -- a hera -> vger -> hera
bounce, in particular (those two machines are nowhere close to each
other, and there can be huge latecy.)  For real-time robots running on
hera, a lower-latency mechanism would be useful.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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