Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: cannot fetch arm git tree

From: Miles Bader <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:27
Also in: 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.
...
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

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Omochiroi!
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