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Re: Cloning speed comparison

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 13, 2005, 05:25 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Running it over ssh would be a good way to do authentication...

Well, if you have ssh as an option, you don't need git-daemon any more, since the protocol that git-daemon does runs quite well over ssh on its own...

The only point of git-daemon really is when you don't have ssh access (ie you may want to give people a limited interface, but not full ssh). Ie as-is, it's only for anonymous reads of a git archive, but it obviously _could_ do more.

		Linus
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