Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: May 17, 2007, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705171130030.24220@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90705170824g4ef8c800w826ada3964b711a@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On 5/18/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> 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?
> 
> And you probably _are_ running git daemon. But some clients may be on
> shitty connections that only allow http. That's one of the scenarios
> we're discussing.

That's not what I'm disputing at all.

I'm disputing the vertue of an HTTP solution involving a cgi with Git bundles vs an HTTP solution involving static file range serving. The clients on shitty connections don't care either ways.

Nicolas