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

[Nicolas Trangez <eikke eikke com>]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 23:25 +1100, Danielle Madeley 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.

If this load issue concerns initial 'git clone' calls over HTTP, and not
further updates ('git fetch'), a solution might be to create baseline
tarballs (e.g. weekly) containing a packed HTTP clone, and put these
available for download. HTTP users can download and unpack these, then
use the repository as usual. This should reduce load on the server, as
well as reduce the time a developer needs to get his repository clone up
and running.

This method was/is used by several other projects using
CVS/SVN/Monotone/...

Nicolas