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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:24:54 +1200
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On 5/18/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> And if you have 1) the permission and 2) the CPU power to execute such a
> cgi on the server and obviously 3) the knowledge to set it up properly,
> then why aren't you running the Git daemon in the first place?

And you probably _are_ running git daemon. But some clients may be on
shitty connections that only allow http. That's one of the scenarios
we're discussing.

cheers,


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