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

[Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier <juanje ojeda gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Danielle Madeley
<danielle madeley collabora co uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

I agree. That has happened to me as well.
I understand the performance issues, but not to have a http acces to
the clones, could be blocker issue for some people.

Greetings.

-- 
Juanje