Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:52 +0200 | From | "John Kacur" <> | Subject | Re: Make the git URL match usage |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.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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