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Re: git and "dumb protocols"

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2006, 12:12 UTC
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Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> I'll probably do, but my concern is broader than that. I like the
> ability to use almost any webhosting service for my revision control.
> GNU Arch was quite good at that, bzr is also (doesn't support webdav
> very well yet, but read-only-HTTP, sftp and ftp are there), so I'd
> like git to do the same.

Well, git can fetch (read) via http, https, ftp, sftp, rsync, git, ssh+git; it can push via http(s) with WebDAV, and ssh+git (ssh+git meaning via ssh, with git installed on the server side).

BTW. rsync is considered obsolete, and suitable only for initial cloning, perhaps.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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  5. Petr BaudisNov 2, 2006
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