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Re: Cloning speed comparison

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2005, 05:16 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
>>BTW, is the pack protocol flexible enough to be extended to support
>>pushing?
> 
> The _protocol_ could handle it, but you obviously need some kind of secure 
> authentication, and quite frankly, one of the selling points on git-daemon 
> right now is that it's all read-only and very simple and there should be 
> no security issues because it will never write anything at all.
> 
Running it over ssh would be a good way to do authentication...
	-hpa
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