temporarily giving up using Git for GCC MELT

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>> Do you use the http: or git: protocol for cloning?  The official gcc git
>> repo only supports the "old" git http: protocol, which is almost useless
>> on slow/high-latency networks...
>
> gcc.gnu.org does talk git:// too.

Right; I meant, "over http:, it only supports the old protocol."

> By "new http", you are probably
> referring to the git-http-backend widget, which we can investigate
> setting up.

Yes

http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html

-Miles

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