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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:48:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqlkfnipjl.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517124006.GO4489@pasky.or.cz> (Petr Baudis's message of "Thu\, 17 May 2007 14\:40\:06 +0200")

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz> writes:

>> Mercurial and bzr both have this option. It would IMO have three benefits:
>>  - Fast access for people behind paranoid firewalls, that only let http and
>>    https (you can tunel anything through, but only to port 443) through.
>
>   How many users really have this problem? I'm not so sure.

Many (if not most?) of the people working in a big company, I'd say.
Year, it sucks, but people having used a paranoid firewall with a
not-less-paranoid and broken proxy understand what I mean.

>>  - Can be run on shared machine. If you have web space on machine shared
>>    by many people, you can set up your own gitweb, but cannot/are not allowed
>>    to start your own network server for git native protocol.
>
>   You need to have CGI-enabled hosting, set up the CGI script etc. -
> overally, the setup is similarly complicated as git-daemon setup, so
> it's not "zero-setup" solution anymore.
>
>   Again, I'm not sure just how many people are in the situation that
> they can run real CGI (not just PHP) but not git-daemon.

Any volunteer to write a full-PHP version of git? ;-)

-- 
Matthieu

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 20:10 Smart fetch via HTTP? Jan Hudec
2007-05-15 22:30 ` A Large Angry SCM
2007-05-15 23:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-16  0:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-16  5:25 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-16 11:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-16 21:26     ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-16 21:54       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-17  0:52       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-17  1:03         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-17  1:04           ` david
2007-05-17  1:26             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-17  1:45               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-17 12:36                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-17  3:45           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 10:48             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-17 14:41               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 15:24                 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-17 15:34                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 20:04                 ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-17 20:31                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 21:00                     ` david
2007-05-18  9:01                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-18 17:51                     ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-17 11:28         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-17 13:10           ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-17 13:47             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-17 14:05               ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-17 14:09               ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-17 15:01                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 23:14                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-17 14:50               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 12:40 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-17 12:48   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2007-05-18 18:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-18 18:33       ` alan
2007-05-18 19:01       ` Joel Becker
2007-05-18 20:06         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-18 20:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-18 21:56           ` Joel Becker
2007-05-20 10:30             ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-19  0:50       ` david
2007-05-19  3:58         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-19  4:58           ` david
2007-05-17 20:26   ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-17 20:38     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-18 17:35       ` Jan Hudec

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