Re: Question: Is it possible to host a writable git repo over both http and ssh?

From: Mike Gaffney <mr.gaffo@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2009, 03:27 UTC
Message-ID: <49CAF607.1020905@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090326021259.GA5835@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Does this go for JGit as well?

-Mike

Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:29:59PM -0500, Mike Gaffney wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to setup a git repo internally at my work. I would like to  
>> make the repo accessable via https for both read and write so that we may 
>> access it from customer locations which don't allow anything but https. I 
>> would also like to host it via SSH because that protocol is much faster. I 
>> know that when you push with http it runs 'git update-server-info', would 
>> I have to make the ssh pushes do the same? Will this even work?
> 
> Yes, it should work just fine. All pushes, no matter how they arrive at
> the repository, will need to run "git update-server-info", which is what
> allows "dumb" protocols like http to read from the repository. The
> default post-update hook does this; you just need to enable it by "cd
> .git/hooks && mv post-update.sample post-update".
> 
> -Peff

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-Mike Gaffney (http://rdocul.us)