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Re: cannot fetch arm git tree

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Jan 24, 2011, 05:01 UTC
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Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> I'm really not interested in working out how to bodge this into working
> along side the existing gitweb setup by adding lots of rewrite rules, so
> as gitweb got there first I think it has priority, that's what we have
> and we'll have to live without the smart http extensions.
...
> It's really not that big a deal if you follow the advice I've given.

Smart http is actually a very big deal -- the old git http protocol is almost unusable in practice with big repos, at least over somewhat latency-limited network connections.

If you don't intend to support people pulling over http, then maybe you don't care. But if you do care, it's very much worth a second look.

[My personal reason for caring is that I'm behind a corporate firewall that's latency limited, although it seems to have pretty good bandwidth. With some public repos, pulling via the old http protocol was a multi-hour operation; the new http protocol is typically multiple orders of magnitude faster in these cases.]

-Miles
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  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 16, 2011
  2. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 16, 2011
  3. Jello huangJan 17, 2011
  4. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  5. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 21, 2011
  6. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 21, 2011
  7. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  8. Jello huangJan 21, 2011
  9. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 21, 2011
  10. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  11. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 21, 2011
  12. Miles BaderJan 24, 2011
  13. Johannes SixtJan 24, 2011
  14. J.H.Jan 24, 2011
  15. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 24, 2011

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