Re: git and "dumb protocols"

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

  yes, you can push using HTTP DAV - just push to an HTTP URL; make sure
you have git-http-push compiled, it is sometimes not compiled because it
unfortunately adds dependencies on couple of more libraries.

That's great. I don't need this right now, but having worked behind a
firewall + proxy, I know how appreciable it is to push with DAV ;-).

  I think a patch that would add support for pushing over sftp or some
other dumb protocol would be welcome. One problem is with proper locking
of ref updates (not sure how well would sftp cope with that), another is
that you will need to do git-update-server-info's job on the server
side.

It should be possible (but not implemented AAUI) also to generate the
additional info of git-update-server-info on the client, isn't it?

  If you already have SSH access to the server, why not compile Git
there and install it to your $HOME, though?

I'll probably do, but my concern is broader than that. I like the
ability to use almost any webhosting service for my revision control.
GNU Arch was quite good at that, bzr is also (doesn't support webdav
very well yet, but read-only-HTTP, sftp and ftp are there), so I'd
like git to do the same.

And yes, there are tons of reasons not to install git on the server.
In particular, the fact that I'm not root there, and too lazy to do
more than "aptitude install git" with pleasure ;-).

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