-- "The purpose of git-daemon is to allow fast (and bandwidth-saving) anonymous read-only (fetch) access to git repositories"
Ah! Now that definitely makes a lot more sense. After the talk I walked away thinking that git-daemon was some sort of telnet of the git world. -Patrick On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> wrote: > So I've been investigating some of the questions asked last night and > come up with some interesting info > > For example - renames.. > > Git does not "track" renames, but the history-reviewing tools can > detect them, because a renamed or moved file will have the same SHA1 > hash. > > So, see the renames I did of Makefile.PL last night, I found that the > following commands work: > > git-whatchanged -M > > git-log --raw -M > > git-diff --diff-filter=RC --find-copies-harder HEAD~2 > > > Also, an example config for hosting a repo on apache where WebDAV is > available (but not mod_git) > > <Location /my_repo.git> > Dav on > AuthType Basic > AuthName “My repo with git” > AuthUserFile /path/to/my_git_repo.passwd > <Limitexcept GET HEAD PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> > Require valid-user > </Limitexcept> > </Location> > > > > WRT using git-daemon: There is *no* authentication in the protocol and > the daemon does not offer any on top of that. I found a very > to-the-point description for why this is: > > "The purpose of git-daemon is to allow fast (and bandwidth-saving) > anonymous read-only (fetch) access to git repositories. The ability to > push via git-daemon was added later, and is turned off by default > because it should be used only in special situations." > > However, as you have probably seen, git's communication protocol is > easily carried by other protocols that *do* support authentication, > such as ssh, HTTP/DAV, and I'm sure several others. :-) > > > OK, that's enough for now... Feel free to add to this thread with your > own discoveries and tips, etc, and I will add more myself as I find > new things! > > > -- > -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
