Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/17] Return of smart HTTP

On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Mark Lodato wrote:

I just realized I forgot to say something in my last email: THANK
YOU!!!  I have been looking forward to this for a long time.  I was
planning to one day to sit down and start thinking about how to
implement a smart protocol, and then I see a post saying that not only
has someone figured out the protocol, but he has implemented it!
Amazing!  This is really crucial for corporate adoption, at least at
my job.  We need to have strong authentication for many users, and the
SSH key management is just a nightmare, not to mention that not all
users can SSH due to firewalls.  This will save me so much time and
frustration.  Thanks!

As I am using git in a corporate environment I couldn't agree more. smart-
http definitely is the most import addition to git in the last months.

So far I didn't carry out extensive production runs but my first tests 
already showed that the smart-http backend solves many problems we have 
with the dumb webdav approach (no hooks, insane amount of http requests, 
slow performance, ...).

As I have a systems engineer (not a C coder) perspective on git I cannot 
comment an any possible glitches of this implementation. I just want to 
make sure that everyone recognizes just how import smart-http is for 
corporate environments and that the current patch already solves a lot of 
problems.


Regards,
Marcus