Re: git copies of cvs modules available

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:19 PM, David Holland
<dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:38:13PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
>  > > > It is not surprising that like cvs git
>  > > > requires a service of its own to work properly,
>  > >
>  > > UNlike cvs, unless you want to name ssh 'a service of its own'.
>  >
>  > Perhaps he should have appended, "when not being used over ssh" to that
>  > statement. Both cvs and git work just fine without anything special
>  > installed if the user has shell access via ssh to the host that contains
>  > the repository. Both also need a special service and protocol for users
>  > that do not have shell access to that host.
>
> Perhaps this would be the point to note that Mercurial's preferred
> remote update service requires only http and a cgi script...
>
that won't forbid the cgi to take huge resources at all... the "git
service" is pretty much nothing but a pipe to git-pack-objects (not
sure it's that one exactly, but it's the idea).

 - Arnaud