Re: Revamping the git protocol
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> Similarly, git-upload-pack can be future-proofed by having it have some
> data transfer timeout: if it doesn't make any progress at all in <n>
> seconds, just kill itself. Things like _that_ are likely to be a lot more
> important, I suspect.
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Right, I already submitted a patch for that.
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> And no, I don't think th egit protocol should do authentication. It's
> hard. If you want to do authentication, you need to do encryption too, and
> then you should do something else (but the git protocol _does_ work fine
> over an encyrpted channel, so the "something else" might be to have some
> secure web interface tunnel protocol or similar, and then just support
> "git over https" or something ;).
git over ssh seems to be the obvious choice.
-hpa