Re: Project Hosting with git ?

From: Grégoire Barbier <devel@gbarbier.org>
Date: Jan 12, 2008, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <4788FBDE.6090903@gbarbier.org>
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20801120845n15d59fe6q178ba257c12a28e0@mail.gmail.com>

Stephen Sinclair a écrit :

> However, git works fine over http.  I have a project on SF which I was
> using with subversion, but I recently switched the project over to
> git.

I disagree: git does not work "fine" over http, it only works fine for fetch/pull. At less with last versions, push over http/webdav does not work (and by the way corrupts the remote repository, by changing the HEAD sha without uploading related objects). I initiated a thread about that on the list a few weeks ago, with subject "git over webdav: what can I do for improving http-push ?". However I did not (yet?) post a patch.

> I simply posted a bare git repo on the project website, and bang it's
> "hosted" on sourceforge.  In order to automate things a bit, I set up
> a local repo which, when I push to it, runs git-update-server-info and
> then uses rsync to upload the repo changes to the SF web server.

I agree with this: if you push locally and then upload, it works fine. With rsync, ftp, sftp or whatever you want.

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