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Faster Git HTTP-based cloning

Item posted by Sylvain Beucler <Beuc> on Sat 18 Sep 2010 05:26:23 PM UTC.

Some of you who are behind strict firewalls, and could not bring the IT department to accept outgoing Git traffic yet; you usually rely on the HTTP backend to clone a repository, using a http:// git URL.

Following a suggestion by Miles Bader, we installed 'git-http-backend' to greatly speed up the http:// access. (It's still recommended to use git:// and ssh:// , which are better suited for working with Git.)

In other Git news, the developers are running a yearly survey and would like your comments:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-users/2010-09/msg00017.html