From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git over webdav: what can I do for improving http-push ? Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:43:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <477822C3.9060002@gbarbier.org> <47791F90.8030302@pobox.com> <20080101113301.GC9214@efreet.light.src> <477A26FD.7020408@gbarbier.org> <20080101202352.GA4295@efreet.light.src> <477D3401.2010005@gbarbier.org> <20080103211521.GA4225@efreet.light.src> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gr=E9goire_Barbier?= , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Hudec X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 03 22:45:34 2008 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 1JAXsY-0000fW-KX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:45:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752218AbYACVpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:45:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751540AbYACVpE (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:45:04 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:41028 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752036AbYACVpD (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:45:03 -0500 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m03Lhxre000547 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:44:00 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m03Lhx6U023886; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:43:59 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20080103211521.GA4225@efreet.light.src> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.683 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_BZ X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Jan Hudec wrote: > > That's not quite true -- bzr has both dumb (walker over plain HTTP) and smart > (CGI) methods. But their CGI is really just tunelling their custom protocol > over HTTP and that protocol will not be anywhere near what we want for git > because of vastly different design of the storage. Well, tunnelling the native git protocol is *exactly* what you'd want to do with some git CGI thing. So no, I don't think the actual stuff you tunnel would have any relationship, but the actual code to set up a tunnel and making it all look like some fake html sequence might be something that can be used as a base. Linus