Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 17, 2007, 15:24 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90705170824g4ef8c800w826ada3964b711a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705170954200.24220@xanadu.home>

On 5/18/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> And if you have 1) the permission and 2) the CPU power to execute such a
> cgi on the server and obviously 3) the knowledge to set it up properly,
> then why aren't you running the Git daemon in the first place?

And you probably _are_ running git daemon. But some clients may be on shitty connections that only allow http. That's one of the scenarios we're discussing.

cheers,

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