Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Jan Hudec wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:41:37 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> And if you have 1) the permission and 2) the CPU power to execute such a
>>> cgi on the server and obviously 3) the knowledge to set it up properly,
>>> then why aren't you running the Git daemon in the first place?  After
>>> all, they both boil down to running git-pack-objects and sending out the
>>> result.  I don't think such a solution really buys much.
>>
>> Yes, it does. I had 2 accounts where I could run CGI, but not separate
>> server, at university while I studied and now I can get the same on friend's
>> server. Neither of them would probably be ok for serving larger busy git
>> repository, but something smaller accessed by several people is OK. I think
>> this is quite common for university students.
>>
>> Of course your suggestion which moves the logic to client-side is a good one,
>> but even the cgi with logic on server side would help in some situations.
>
> You could simply wrap git-bundle within a cgi.  That is certainly easy
> enough.