| Summary: | Facilitate switching between git and HTTP repository access | ||
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| Product: | freedesktop.org | Reporter: | Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit> |
| Component: | Administration | Assignee: | fd.o Admin Massive <sitewranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
The /git/ subdirectory can be handled by customizing for freedesktop.org, as noted on xorg-devel, I use: [url "http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/"] insteadOf = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/" Though I can see it would be nice not to special case different sites like that. [BTW, isn't it about time to update the component for source code management in the "freedesktop.org" product in bugzilla to something other than "CVS"?] (In reply to comment #1) > The /git/ subdirectory can be handled by customizing for freedesktop.org, > as noted on xorg-devel, I use: > > [url "http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/"] > insteadOf = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/" Yes, or start with a git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/ URL. What I really would like to see is a known way to formulate a git-URL for which a http translation always works (if http is supported). If there would be some way to retry a HTTP URL with a '.git' suffix if it was missing, that would solve it. I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve here. If you want to use HTTP rather than git to access a repo, just use the HTTP url? (In reply to comment #3) > I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve here. If you want to use HTTP > rather than git to access a repo, just use the HTTP url? There are some awesome scripts and frameworks that use URLs to access multiple repos. Those scripts have to decide which URL to use. Fortunately Git provides a way to change the protocol. It does so by translating a starting portion of the URL. You can for example switch to using HTTP simply by configuring this: [url "http"] insteadOf = "git" This would make it easier for people who cannot use the git protocol to get the sources. The problem is that to get HTTP access to a repo, currently, one has to exactly use the URL with or without '.git' suffix. I guess that some repos do not have a '.git' suffix. I have found these repos: cairo cairo-5c cairo-www fontconfig gstreamer/gst-plugins-gl gstreamer/gst-rtsp-server gstreamer/jhbuild mesa/rbug-gui nouveau/linux-2.6 plymouth poppler/test py2cairo pycairo roadster xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd To get rid of such access failures once and for all, it would be nice if it would be possible to redirect to the right location by appending or stripping the '.git' suffix. Yes, you would have to use the correct URL, but where do we show URLs which are not correct wrt the trailing .git or not? I think this should be fixed in Git |
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Hi, It would be nice if access to fd.o repos could be easily switched to HTTP. If you are using a script to access multiple repos, the simplest solution from the user's perspective is to simply add this git configuration: [url "http"] insteadOf = "git" There are two things that are preventing this to be robust currently. 1. Access without the 'anongit.freedesktop.org/git' subdirectory works with git, but not with http. 2. Access with the '.git' suffix is only optional if the actual repository has that suffix, and in the case of HTTP, only the exact address will work. The ideal solution would be if any access combination would work. Is that feasible? Alternatively, it would be nice if HTTP access to a repository with a real '.git' suffix, would work without that suffix specified in the URL. This way scripts could always use the '/git/' subdirectory and use URLs without '.git' suffix. A plus in the first column marks access that works, and a minus sign marks access that doesn't work: repository with '.git' suffix + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xprop + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xprop.git + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop.git repository without '.git' suffix + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test + git://anongit.freedesktop.org/poppler/test - git://anongit.freedesktop.org/poppler/test.git - git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test.git http access only exactly: http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xprop.git only exactly: http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test