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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: serving git with both "git:" and "http:" and submodules
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:12:54 -0500
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Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> Ok I'll dive into "git-http-backend" (any pointers).

The reference manual[1] is all I know of.  Googling reveals a
nice overview[2] by Scott Chacon.

>                                              Are you suggesting to
> just drop the "git:" protocol? (Since "git-http-backend" is just as
> good, through http?)

Exactly[3].

> Thanks that actually helped

Glad to be useful. :)

Good luck,
Jonathan

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html
[2] http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html
[3] Well, the protocol overhead is a little higher, but that is nothing
compared to the difference between git: and traditional static http:.