On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:44:56AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering: are any plans to support the (relatively new) git > "smart-http" protocol on savannah...? > > [Basically it allows git to pull over http: _much_ more quickly than the > old slow git http: protocol, and I think it's backward compatible (old > clients that don't know about the new smart http protocol can still use > the old slow-git-http protocol). Also it can handle pushing etc over > http. > > The http: protocol is important in general because it's easier to get > through nasty corporate firewalls etc.] > > Here's a web-page I found that talks about supporting it: > > http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html
I didn't know about it. This sounds like a good idea for read-only access. It seems to be possible to keep the current git.sv.gnu.org/r/ behavior while enabling 'git-http-backend', we could do that. For commit access, I dislike granting Apache write access to all repositories, because in that case any flaw in Apache/Gitweb/CGit/etc. would allow the attacker to corrupt any Savannah repositories. -- Sylvain
