From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26660 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2007 15:11:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 26653 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2007 15:11:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx.meyering.net (HELO mx.meyering.net) (82.230.74.64) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:11:16 +0000 Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id D6D9D4DBC2; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:11:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: git repository mirrors? In-Reply-To: <20070726150322.GA30643@redhat.com> (Frank Ch. Eigler's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 11\:03\:22 -0400") References: <87ir87e2k9.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20070726150322.GA30643@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87hcnrci9a.fsf@rho.meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 "Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote: >> [...] However, if sourceware has such infrastructure already in >> place (or will soon), it'd make more sense to do it on the system >> hosting the "upstream" repository. > > There is not git server daemon running, but some version of the git > suite is installed. > > If you had shell access, you could in theory put a shared git repo > somewhere under a project directory (/sourceware/projects/lvm2-home or > /sourceware/www/sourceware/htdocs/lvm2) and export at least read-only > http access to it. > > cgf, would it be hard to make your restricted-shell ssh wrapper to > also accept git? Thanks, but the http-hamstrung git isn't worth it: not nearly as efficient, and rarely used, so probably not as robust. IMHO, the only worthwhile way to allow read-only git access is to open the git port, 9418. If this is a hassle for you guys, don't worry. I think I have all the pieces in place on et.redhat.com.