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From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet•fi>
To: Fabien <fabien.ubuntu@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is git over http (git-http-push) ready for production ?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:04:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100219140419.GB31796@Knoppix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hllp07$o78$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:26:16AM +0100, Fabien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following my last email about locks problem with reiserfs (see
> git-http-push (git v1.5) problems with DAVLockDB on reiserfs FS), I was
> wondering how reliable is git-http-push.

> Another problem I see is the password in clear text in ~/.netrc to avoid
>   to type passwords all the time.
> 
> Finally, hooks don't work when using git over http (yep, I know, it's a
> "dumb" protocol)...

1.6.6 introduced Smart HTTP. It is much more efficient, can run hooks and
has same kind of atomicity guarantees as ssh://, but it has few shorcomings:

- Requires server support (CGI script & Git 1.6.6+)
- Hook messages don't work (at least with 1.6.6.X/1.7.0.X)
- Requires 1.6.6+ on client side
- Authentication still sucks (no surprise, auth with HTTP just plain sucks).

But I regard HTTP fetch/push as backup for cases where git:// and ssh://
are not possible.

-Ilari

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19 10:26 Is git over http (git-http-push) ready for production ? Fabien
2010-02-19 11:14 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-19 13:46 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-02-19 14:04 ` Ilari Liusvaara [this message]
2010-02-19 15:08   ` Fabien
2010-02-19 19:05     ` Shawn Pearce

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