Re: Cloning speed comparison

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2005, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <42FE815F.8050201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508122223280.19049@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Running it over ssh would be a good way to do authentication...
> 
> 
> Well, if you have ssh as an option, you don't need git-daemon any more, 
> since the protocol that git-daemon does runs quite well over ssh on its 
> own...
> 
> The only point of git-daemon really is when you don't have ssh access (ie
> you may want to give people a limited interface, but not full ssh). Ie
> as-is, it's only for anonymous reads of a git archive, but it obviously
> _could_ do more.
>

Okay. So use git-daemon for the anonymous users, and run the git protocol over ssh for writing. Seems easy enough for me.

	-hpa