Subject: Re: Why not clone to a remote directory over SSH

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:15:02 +0100

Nick Hengeveld wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:16:01PM -0700, Carl Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 
>>It might be cool to enable cloning to a remote over ssh if the remote
>>doesn't yet exist.
> 
> 
> I would like to see the same for http.  There is limited support for
> managing a repository using http but without the ability to run tools
> like init-db/clone/update-server-info you still need shell access
> or some other workaround.  I think it would be useful to allow someone
> to create, manage, and share a repository without any special
> intelligence on the server side.
> 

You'll still need to install at least git-init-db and git-receive-pack 
(and git-merge, and...), even if they're run through commands from the 
web. That's pretty special intelligence.

You'd also have to add some logic to enter_repo() to make it find 
repositories without a HEAD correctly.

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