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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