On 1/10/21 5:14 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/myproject.git -
>encrypted read-only anonymous smart http access"
Nice, then https:// seems indeed to be better than git://.
Have a nice day,
Berny
Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> For HTTP/HTTPS, the question is if the server is configured for
> "smart HTTP" or if the client has to fall back to "dumb HTTP".
Does https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit/ answer this question?
It says:
"https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/myproject.git -
encry
On 1/10/21 1:20 PM, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote:
> Using https:// instead of git:// makes this slightly better.
Both https:// and git:// URLs are configured to be read-only on the
Savannah server, and only the ssh:// variant allows pushing.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-
I had a walk and realized it might be better to think of the problem
like this. Consider if someone wants to volunteer to do a new gettext
release, they would go to
https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gettext
which properly suggest to checkout over https or SSH. After reading
HACKING the pers
Bruno Haible writes:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Can you briefly say, why, please? Is the 'git' protocol unsecure?
> Is it a problem specifically with Savannah? Or what else?
Sorry I should have included this -- I thought it was well-known.
The man page for git-clone https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone says
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 7:10 PM Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion
list wrote:
>
> I have pushed this, and I also updated the link from
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/
>
> /Simon
>
> * build-aux/bootstrap (default_gnulib_url): Ditto.
> * config/srclistvars.sh: Ditto.
> * doc/gnulib-readme
Hi Simon,
Can you briefly say, why, please? Is the 'git' protocol unsecure?
Is it a problem specifically with Savannah? Or what else?
Also:
> -# url = git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
> +# url = https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git gnulib
Is this syntacti
I have pushed this, and I also updated the link from
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/
/Simon
* build-aux/bootstrap (default_gnulib_url): Ditto.
* config/srclistvars.sh: Ditto.
* doc/gnulib-readme.texi (Git Checkout): Ditto.
* doc/gnulib-tool.texi (VCS Issues): Ditto.
* top/gitsub.sh: Update l
