On Sun, 26 April 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On Sun, 26 April 2009, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Am 26.04.2009, 10:16 Uhr, schrieb Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>: > [...] > > > The deciding feature (well, one of deciding features) was the fact > > > that Mercurial has better HTTP support... I guess (it was not obvious > > > from the analysis, but it was hinted at) that Mercurial uses its > > > custom protocol over HTTP, as opposed to "dumb" HTTP protocol support > > > in Git. > > > > > > Perhaps it is time to restart work on _"smart" HTTP protocol_? > > > > That would certainly be useful, but the "packs" approach is something that > > may make this more difficult than for Mercurial. Git+SSH works rather well > > though. > > As you can find in mailing list archives the design part of "tunelling" > pack protocol over HTTP, using git-aware server (for example some CGI > script, or simple HTTP server like Mercurial's hg-serve), is done. [...] See thread named "More on git over HTTP POST" and its predecessor http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91196 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91104/focus=91196 -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html