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



On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 05:46 +0000, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:48, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> > Please note that to checkout a Git repository you should use:
> >  git clone git://git.gnome.org/[project]
> > or (if you have commit access):
> >  git clone ssh://[login@]git.gnome.org/git/[project]
> >
> > Do NOT try to checkout via http. It is not something we support!
> >
> > 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).
> 
> Do you mind explaining what's causing bad performance when using
> http... why is it less efficient than using git protocol?

This is documented in:
http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html
http://progit.org/book/ch4-1.html
http://progit.org/book/ch9-6.html

-- 
Germán Póo-Caamaño
http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/

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