Re: Git: Do not use http to access Git!

[Danielle Madeley <danielle madeley collabora co uk>]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:48 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:

> Some people have been using the cgit interface to checkout a lot of git
> modules. This cause a very high load on our server. Please use the git
> protocol instead. For now I've blocked git from accessing cgit as too
> many people have been using the http interface and it negatively impacts
> performance (very high loads over long periods).

Is it possible these people are on ridiculous corporate networks that
only permit HTTP traffic (via a proxy) and allow no other outgoing
connections beyond their network?

I have been on one of these before, http was the only way I could
checkout sources (from Subversion at the time).

If this is the case, git being awesome as it is, perhaps someone could
set up a remote that offers http cloning that updates once a day or so.
This would let people clone a repo, and still submit their work via
format-patch etc.

--danni

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Danielle Madeley
Software Developer, Collabora Ltd.                  Melbourne, Australia

www.collabora.co.uk