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On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 08:03 -0400, Peter Harris wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">Draconian firewalls.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">The git protocol is far more efficient than the dumb http protocol, so</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">that's what you want to use if you can. But every time I see an open</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">source project announce a git-only URL, someone comes out of the</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">woodwork asking for http to be enabled.</FONT></TT><BR>
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Thanks. I am a bit confused. Don't we all use:
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[remote "origin"]
url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver/
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(unless we use ssh, of course).
Those with such a firewall also have to somehow use a non git url
for all of their xorg modules?
When I type this git url in the web browser, I get an error:
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[...]because the protocol (git) isn't associated with any program
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I always wanted to ask someone about this...
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