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Re: Git Daemon Dummy: 301 Redirects for git:// to https://

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Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Date
Feb 23, 2016, 15:11 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> Yeah, the existence of HTTPS (and the fact that the same URL can be both
> anonymous and authenticated) is nice. Unfortunately, git-over-https is
> not as efficient as the other protocols, because it's not asynchronously
> bi-directional. It would probably be relatively simple to make a
> "gits://" protocol, but I think it would be more interesting still if we
> could do git-over-websockets, to get the ubiquity benefits of HTTP.

That's interesting. I didn't realize that even the smart protocol was not as efficient as HTTP, but that makes sense. git+ws:// would indeed be quite nice!

> Darn printed books. I thought the Ministry of Truth was supposed to take
> care of keeping our facts up to date.
:-P
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  4. Jason A. DonenfeldFeb 23, 2016
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  6. John KeepingFeb 23, 2016
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