Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757451AbYGPMbE (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:31:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754289AbYGPMay (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:30:54 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.28]:60004 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753833AbYGPMax (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:30:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ai1YaYwv6kB8kTJJ6kQ3D/CYtDLX+mNxl929EblJ6NbW4Tlv454dxjYnFL/B72m5TU iY4rS0V29nKhkPILdbXjSIGq5gDgBSRkakwiJov12kt/arhcQL222J9Hh3VMeMWUxYl7 27wIT1/2AJwjfCDUOFWxRCFadqWd6R6OLiZbQ= Message-ID: <520f0cf10807160530g1a9c3a09w2fd4237199612fd7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:52 +0200 From: "John Kacur" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: Make the git URL match usage Cc: "Andy Whitcroft" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200807161047.21040.jkacur@gmail.com> <20080716102104.GA7477@shadowen.org> <520f0cf10807160334y7228527ev7e970b00c734778d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 25 On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Jan Engelhardt 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/