From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Cloning speed comparison Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:16:20 -0700 Message-ID: <42FD8224.9020700@zytor.com> References: <20050813015402.GC20812@pasky.ji.cz> <20050813031025.GE20812@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org, ftpadmin@kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 13 07:17:29 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3oOO-0001eB-00 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:17:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751292AbVHMFQz (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:16:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751303AbVHMFQz (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:16:55 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:53149 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751292AbVHMFQy (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:16:54 -0400 X-Envelope-From: hpa@zytor.com Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-239-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.239.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by paleosilicon.orionmulti.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7D5GVJv020367 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:16:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>BTW, is the pack protocol flexible enough to be extended to support >>pushing? > > The _protocol_ could handle it, but you obviously need some kind of secure > authentication, and quite frankly, one of the selling points on git-daemon > right now is that it's all read-only and very simple and there should be > no security issues because it will never write anything at all. > Running it over ssh would be a good way to do authentication... -hpa