From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Cloning speed comparison Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:25:19 -0700 Message-ID: <42FE815F.8050201@zytor.com> References: <20050813015402.GC20812@pasky.ji.cz> <20050813031025.GE20812@pasky.ji.cz> <42FD8224.9020700@zytor.com> 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 Sun Aug 14 01:28:17 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E45Pg-0006xN-Eh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:27:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932405AbVHMXZx (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:25:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932407AbVHMXZx (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:25:53 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:7329 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932405AbVHMXZw (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:25:52 -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 j7DNPYJv027674 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:25:35 -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: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Running it over ssh would be a good way to do authentication... > > > Well, if you have ssh as an option, you don't need git-daemon any more, > since the protocol that git-daemon does runs quite well over ssh on its > own... > > The only point of git-daemon really is when you don't have ssh access (ie > you may want to give people a limited interface, but not full ssh). Ie > as-is, it's only for anonymous reads of a git archive, but it obviously > _could_ do more. > Okay. So use git-daemon for the anonymous users, and run the git protocol over ssh for writing. Seems easy enough for me. -hpa