Bob Proulx <[email protected]> writes: > Ihor Radchenko wrote: >> Bob Proulx writes: >> > But that URL is not one to be seen by humans though so it should not >> > be a problem for humans to sort out. That's the URL for git clients. >> > And git clients being computer programs are never surprised as such by >> > what they use or find there. >> >> Oh, no. That *is* seen by humans. We need to give it for git clone >> instructions. As a result, for example, it is staring right at the users >> at https://orgmode.org/. Some users are confused. > > This is talking about this line on that page: > > git clone https://https.git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/org-mode.git > > That's staring at users in the git clone command. That is not staring > at users in the web browser location bar. Those are two completely > different things.
Yeah. You are right. I was replying slightly out of context of the topic. > Also one of the good reasons to have it be "https" in both places is > because it is easy to match them up. "http" matches with "http", > "https" matches with "https". That's what makes some users think that it is a typo. See https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/[email protected]/ >> > git.git.savannah.gnu.org >> > https.git.savannah.gnu.org >> > http.git.savannah.gnu.org >> > gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org >> > cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org > >> What about simply mirror.git.savannah.gnu.org? > > That would recreate almost the same problem we have today by funneling > all of those services together into one URL all over again. > > Take the case that often occurs that we have a botnet that decides to > destroy cgit and hammers cgit to oblivion. If they are all under the > same URL mirror.git.savannah.gnu.org then if ANY of them get DDOS'd > then ALL of them get DDOS'd. That's what we are trying to avoid. Hmm. I was rather thinking about something like mirror.git.savannah.gnu.org mirror.cgit.savannah.gnu.org etc Not everything under the same name. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
