Re: cannot fetch arm git tree

From: Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
Date: Jan 21, 2011, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <4D39A2CA.5030504@vollmann.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20110121145025.GS13235@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 01/21/11 15:50, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:28:14PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>> It seems to be an implementation of the git protocol using
>> HTTP as transport.
>> Some info on this is at<http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html>.
>
> Setting up Smart HTTP
>
> ...
>     To set it up, it■s best to walk through the instructions on the
>     `git-http-backend` documentation page. Basically, you have to install Git
>     v1.6.6 or higher on a server with an Apache 2.x webserver (it has to be
>     Apache, currently - other CGI servers don■t work, last I checked). Then
>     you add something similar to this to your http.conf file:
>
>   SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
>   SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
>   ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
>
> Great.  Deciding that it will be http://servername.example.com/git/ is
> really damned annoying as that's traditionally where gitweb lives,
> which requires a different script alias.
>
> It seems that due to a lack of coordination between different git
> developers, people running webservers have a choice between providing
> gitweb or this http extension.

Huh? /git/ is just the example here, you can use any name you want. E.g. I use /auth/ for authenticated users, and others use /gitmob/ or /gitanon/ for non-authenticated users. And you can use something like gitsmart, githttp, or whatever...

   Detlef

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