From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 05:16:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning speed comparison
Message-ID: <42FD8224.9020700@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508122021490.19049@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>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