linux-kernel - Re: Make the git URL match usage

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:52 +0200
From:	"John Kacur" <jkacur@...il.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make the git URL match usage

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2008-07-16 12:34, John Kacur wrote:
>>>
>>> This now looses information.  Although it is obvious that this particular
>>> example (after conversion) is a git repository over git protocol this falls
>>> down for other forms, for example a git repository exported over http://
> [...]
>
> git over http really is no fun at the moment and one should really
> use git:// whenever possible. Where it is not possible due to
> tightknotted corporate firewalls, well, that's (a) their problem and
> (b) they probably know already how to go around it.
>
> If in doubt, just add a paragraph that one can exchange git://
> by http://, but I would not make it that obvious to use an inferior
> transfer protocol.
>

Luckily I didn't see any use of http:// with git listed in the MAINTAINERS file.
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