On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Danielle Madeley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:48 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > >> Some people have been using the cgit interface to checkout a lot of git >> modules. This cause a very high load on our server. Please use the git >> protocol instead. For now I've blocked git from accessing cgit as too >> many people have been using the http interface and it negatively impacts >> performance (very high loads over long periods). > > Is it possible these people are on ridiculous corporate networks that > only permit HTTP traffic (via a proxy) and allow no other outgoing > connections beyond their network? > > I have been on one of these before, http was the only way I could > checkout sources (from Subversion at the time). > > If this is the case, git being awesome as it is, perhaps someone could > set up a remote that offers http cloning that updates once a day or so. > This would let people clone a repo, and still submit their work via > format-patch etc. >
I agree. That has happened to me as well. I understand the performance issues, but not to have a http acces to the clones, could be blocker issue for some people. Greetings. -- Juanje _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
