Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: May 17, 2007, 12:48 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqlkfnipjl.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070517124006.GO4489@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

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>> Mercurial and bzr both have this option. It would IMO have three benefits:
>>  - Fast access for people behind paranoid firewalls, that only let http and
>>    https (you can tunel anything through, but only to port 443) through.
>
>   How many users really have this problem? I'm not so sure.

Many (if not most?) of the people working in a big company, I'd say. Year, it sucks, but people having used a paranoid firewall with a not-less-paranoid and broken proxy understand what I mean.

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>>  - Can be run on shared machine. If you have web space on machine shared
>>    by many people, you can set up your own gitweb, but cannot/are not allowed
>>    to start your own network server for git native protocol.
>
>   You need to have CGI-enabled hosting, set up the CGI script etc. -
> overally, the setup is similarly complicated as git-daemon setup, so
> it's not "zero-setup" solution anymore.
>
>   Again, I'm not sure just how many people are in the situation that
> they can run real CGI (not just PHP) but not git-daemon.

Any volunteer to write a full-PHP version of git? ;-)

-- 
Matthieu