On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 14:04 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: [...] > > 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've noticed the following after sending the initial mail: > http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html > > Basically: If the client has git 1.6.6+, there is a possibility to be as > (almost as?) efficient as the git protocol using http. I've reconfigured > all git repos to have: > http.getanyfile false > http.receivepack false > Meaning: Only want efficient Git. > > My intend is to allow the git 1.6.6+ method, and explicitly disallow the > previous method. > > This requires some sysadmin work to setup (newer git, newer cgit, etc). > Doing that atm, not sure when I'll finish.
Thanks! A number of colleges here in India block access to all ports and allow HTTP over a proxy, so that's a whole bunch of people who will benefit from this. Cheers, Arun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list