Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.0

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 16:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702140839560.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <17875.9043.217255.863200@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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> 
> This is enabled by passing the --enable=receive-pack to the
> git-daemon (usually in the [x]?inetd configuration).
> 
> This has the benefit of:

Before you list the benefits, you should always talk about the lack of security! Let nobody enable it without realizing the dangers! Tell people to _only_ do this inside a company firewall, and even then, only if you trust everybody.

>   2) A less ugly URL to use: git://server/repo, instead of, say,
>      ssh+git://server/path/to/repos/repo.

Why do people use that silly "ssh+git://" format?

It's a cogito thing. Native git has never done it, and only supports it because cogito thought it must make sense.

The native git ssh URL is exactly the normal ssh URL:

	server:/path/to/repos/repo

and if you really want to use the "xxx://" format, you might as well just use

	ssh://server/path/to/repos/repo

which should also work fine.

		Linus

PS. This is the commit message that  added "git+ssh://":

	Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
	Date:   Fri Oct 14 17:14:56 2005 -0700
	
	    Support git+ssh:// and ssh+git:// URL
	
	    It seemed to be such a stupid syntax. It's both what "ssh://" means,
	    and it's what not specifying a protocol at _all_ means.
	
	    But hey, since we already have two ways of saying "use ssh with
	    pack-files", here's two more.

so it was deemed stupid from the get-go, and isn't even some "legacy" thing. It's purely a "cogito people thought it makes sense to point out that it's _both_ native git _and_ ssh protocol".