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  19 <h1>About the Site</h1>
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  21
  22 <p><strong>repo.or.cz</strong> is a public <a href="http://git.or.cz">Git</a> hosting site.
  23 You can <a href="/m/regproj.cgi">create a project</a> here and then publish your development by pushing
  24 to it, or even enable push access for multiple developers.
  25 Alternately, you can just set up a mirror of any project published elsewhere
  26 and we will provide pull and gitweb access for the project.</p>
  27
  28 <p>In the push mode, every developer that wants push access will need to
  29 <a href="/m/reguser.cgi">create an account</a> and use SSH for pushing changes;
  30 using the project administration password, you will be able to add/remove
  31 permission for developers to push. Also, optional <a href="/mob.html">anonymous push access</a>
  32 to a dedicated <tt>mob</tt> branch is supported.</p>
  33
  34 <p>In the mirror mode, we will check the remote repository at the URL you
  35 give us every hour and if we spot any changes, we will grab them, mirror
  36 them and show them in our gitweb interface. It's a matter of few clicks
  37 to set up a mirror - don't be shy and feel free to create mirror for any
  38 git project without a decent gitweb interface or with badly hosted
  39 repository; you don't need to be the project maintainer to setup a mirror.</p>
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  42 <h2>Terms and Conditions</h2>
  43
  44 <p>There are only two conditions:</p>
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  46 <ul>
  47 <li>Your project must be free software and distributing it must not violate laws
  48 of Czech Republic. (The registration process is completely automatic but we will
  49 remove your project if we find out during manual inspection or on request by
  50 someone relevant.)</li>
  51 <li>The repository size should not exceed 100M after repacking (let us know
  52 if you need an exception). If you need more, you are running quite a big
  53 project and should be able to arrange own hosting; but we can and likely will
  54 grant exceptions. Note that e.g. CVS-imported glibc repository with ~15 years
  55 worth of history is just 100M.</li>
  56 </ul>
  57
  58 <p>This site provides NO WARRANTY of any legal kind about whatever you store
  59 here. Someone can crack your account or the site, alter the data, make mayhem
  60 and whatever else; we cannot be helt responsible for any manage that may be
  61 caused to you in any way in connection with this site.</p>
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  64 <h2>Backup policy</h2>
  65
  66 <p>Your repository is NOT backed up! Why? Because you have backups yourself,
  67 and all your users do, too! The distributed nature of Git means that all the
  68 developers and all the users who ever cloned the repository have the full
  69 history of it, and shall any disaster happen to repo.or.cz, all can be
  70 easily restored by a single simple push. That said, we may set up backups
  71 in the future if the service becomes popular enough.</p>
  72
  73 <p>Actually, the metadata and project information is not backed up either
  74 currently. We'll fix that soon.</p>
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  77 <h2>Operation</h2>
  78
  79 <p>repo.or.cz runs on a far from stellar machine (dual PIII 1GHz, 2G RAM,
  80 100G disk) that also serves as a PoP for the <a href="http://www.xs26.net/">XS26</a>
  81 IPv6 tunnel broker.
  82 It is currently hosted at UPC Czech Republic (but it's a bit guerilla ;-).
  83 If you want to sponsor a hosting and a better machine, please contact
  84 the administrator.</p>
  85
  86 <p>That is (the administrator), <a href="mailto:pasky@suse.cz">Petr Baudis</a>
  87 who runs the site. Virtually all the infrastructure is available in a git
  88 repository <a href="/gitweb.cgi/repo.git">repo.git</a> and is licenced
  89 under GPLv2.</p>
  90
  91
  92 <h2>Competition</h2>
  93
  94 <p>Other big Git(web) hostings:</p>
  95 <ul>
  96 <li><a href="http://kernel.org/git/">kernel.org/git</a> for kernel-related and Git-related projects</li>
  97 <li><a href="http://www.jur-linux.org/git/">www.jur-linux.org/git/</a> for random mirrors of Fedora-related projects</li>
  98 </ul>
  99 <p>(But they don't have the open nature of repo.or.cz.)</p>
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