From: Mark Lodato Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:56 GMT Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090427211502.GI23604@spearce.org> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > IOW, if Git wants to expand into these user communities where the > individual is stuck behind a corporate proxy that only permits HTTP > "for security reasons" (but blindly winds up passing through whatever > it gets), we need to support a more efficient HTTP protocol. Another advantage of supporting HTTP is allowing HTTPS. SSL can take advantage of an existing PKI infrastructure, either the Internet's existing server-side certificate system, or a corporate server- and possibly client-side PKI infrastructure. -- Mark