git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc: "Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "James Cloos" <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:57:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904262157.39450.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904261209.08108.jnareb@gmail.com>

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@gmail.com>:

> [...]
> > > 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-26 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-26  5:03 Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Christian Couder
2009-04-26  7:12 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-26  8:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26  8:23   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-04-26 10:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 10:16       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26 10:18       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 12:02         ` Alex Blewitt
2009-04-27 20:31           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-26 10:21       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-04-26  9:21   ` Matthias Andree
2009-04-26 10:09     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26 11:47       ` Matthias Andree
2009-04-26 19:57       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-04-26 14:54   ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-26 16:45     ` Michael Witten
2009-04-26 16:56     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 17:33       ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-26 17:45         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 18:00           ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-26 18:59   ` James Cloos
2009-04-26 10:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 16:47   ` Michael Witten
2009-04-26 22:24   ` Miles Bader
2009-04-27 21:15   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30  0:00     ` Mark Lodato

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200904262157.39450.jnareb@gmail.com \
    --to=jnareb@gmail.com \
    --cc=chriscool@tuxfamily.org \
    --cc=cloos@jhcloos.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=matthias.andree@gmx.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).