From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:29:35 GMT Subject: Re: dumb transports not being welcomed.. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vpsrcwrc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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