From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:57:36 +0200 Message-ID: <200904262157.39450.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200904260703.31243.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <200904261209.08108.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Christian Couder" , git@vger.kernel.org, "James Cloos" To: "Matthias Andree" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 27 11:11:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LyAVl-0005PK-Ir for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:59:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755624AbZDZT5v (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:57:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754864AbZDZT5u (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:57:50 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:14889 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754677AbZDZT5u (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:57:50 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so457185fgg.17 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=PXv8oMTms/48wmuBsygab7P3uAkMuZbBED23CBo5lWs=; b=TUmob2pZGy+gvh093StBwXKjx6DBJv4ygQ1FumgYFAdiizW961AG5CskAM7hloBe3v FU3AozTbFU64yphd/I5joZvPwOsVKtq0oaL21wgEuiIa/LKHNz2N0hn4f2CekEI6LACx /DJyz6bGZnJZUBz1BL0/63u+KZ2LYRRjJV/TU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=kBa9PyZ7RC60HCWfbMJgG43opa7gapYcnMKN/Rvv82eoMhV5mFxq7Z1bSG/kMvXVMR pYuKjtubD56Iha7N5343OsxNKu4APTk4dDRKCWbMZsOmcJ3AhPcCW3pEYsGmLAk1WDbY uXLBUv+3EXAHOBO11pf0kYWA1rnsdGagJgf+A= Received: by 10.86.29.8 with SMTP id c8mr2620838fgc.70.1240775868802; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.13? (abvp13.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.213.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm3140647fga.11.2009.04.26.12.57.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:57:47 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <200904261209.08108.jnareb@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 : > [...] > > > 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