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Re: dumb transports not being welcomed..

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 13, 2005, 22:29 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0509131525250.26803@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> I need to clarify what I meant by 'not welcoming dumb transport'
> a bit better.  Namely, those (~80 - 23) = ~57 repositories lack
> support for 'git ls-remote' over http, which means you cannot
> discover what refs the repository has.

You do realize that up until a week ago (six days, to be exact), kernel.org was running git-0.99.4, which I don't think actually implemented any of the info stuff?

So out of the 57 repositories, how many haven't been updated in a week?
I suspect that explains a large portion of it.

Also, I really do think that the dumb transports are oversold, and git-daemon is undersold. I know all about firewalls, but I also think that if people used the smart protocols more, that's a problem that would largely solve itself. 

Dumb protocols can never do really well. That's just very fundamental. 
		Linus
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  1. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  2. Sam RavnborgSep 13, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  4. Sam RavnborgSep 13, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  6. Jeff GarzikSep 13, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  8. Jeff GarzikSep 14, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsSep 13, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsSep 13, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  13. Kay SieversSep 14, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2005
  15. Johannes SchindelinSep 14, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsSep 14, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsSep 14, 2005
  18. Johannes SchindelinSep 14, 2005
  19. Linus TorvaldsSep 14, 2005
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2005
  21. Sven VerdoolaegeSep 14, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2005
  23. Jon LoeligerSep 14, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2005
  25. Jon LoeligerSep 14, 2005

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