From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:24:37 GMT Subject: Re: Windows Server? Message-ID: <20090429152437.GC23604@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70AE3F27E@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> John Dlugosz wrote: > > But yes, the SSH protocol is the git:// protocol, tunneled through > SSH, > > and will be much more efficient over the VPN than SMB. > > Someone else said that the git daemon is for fetching only. So that's > not a limitation with the git: protocol, just the git-daemon itself? Correct. Actually, git-daemon can support pushing. Its just that it has *no* authentication, so enabling push support on the daemon is really risky as anyone who has network access to the server can update the repositories it hosts. -- Shawn.