Re: cannot fetch arm git tree
From: Miles Bader <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:27
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linux-arm-kernel
Russell King - ARM Linux [off-list ref] writes:
I'm really not interested in working out how to bodge this into working along side the existing gitweb setup by adding lots of rewrite rules, so as gitweb got there first I think it has priority, that's what we have and we'll have to live without the smart http extensions.
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It's really not that big a deal if you follow the advice I've given.
Smart http is actually a very big deal -- the old git http protocol is almost unusable in practice with big repos, at least over somewhat latency-limited network connections. If you don't intend to support people pulling over http, then maybe you don't care. But if you do care, it's very much worth a second look. [My personal reason for caring is that I'm behind a corporate firewall that's latency limited, although it seems to have pretty good bandwidth. With some public repos, pulling via the old http protocol was a multi-hour operation; the new http protocol is typically multiple orders of magnitude faster in these cases.] -Miles -- Omochiroi!