[poky] Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 15:46 -0600, Ryan D Phillips wrote:
> On 11/9/2010 12:31 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:05:29AM -0800, Scott Garman wrote:
> >> On 11/09/2010 08:31 AM, Ryan_D_Phillips at Dell.com wrote:
> >>> Good Day!
> >>>
> >>> My name is Ryan Phillips (irc: rphillips), a former Gentoo Linux
> >>> Developer, currently a software developer architecting an embedded
> >>> firmware solution on OE for my employer. With the release of Yocto,
> >>> we are extremely interested in trying it out and possibly
> >>> contributing to the project. My cohort working with me is Sean Hudson
> >>> (irc: darknighte), and is someone who you may see contributions from
> >>> as well.
> >>>
> >>> A major stumbling block we must work around is the restrictive
> >>> firewall and git checkouts. We have found out the git-http-backend
> >>> works extremely well, and are requesting this support on
> >>> git.pokylinux.org. We suspect other people within larger corporations
> >>> would have a similar problem, and by adding this support would help
> >>> the community at large.
> >>>
> >
> 
> Hmm. I didn't mean to start a firestorm. Read only git-http-backend 
> access is something that we would find useful. As an alternative, we can 
> create repo.or.cz mirrors, but I'm not all that keen on this.

I'm travelling at the moment so I'll just keep this brief.

I'm more than happy to try and find a way to share git.yoctoproject.org
over http for cloning, that shouldn't be too hard. I'll see if I can get
something working next week although I'm meant to be taking some
vacation too.

For push access over https, that is a lot more difficult as it is
unlikely to integrate well with our access control system. I'd need to
do more reading before I could really comment on that. It appears
changes in git support it better at least.

Cheers,

Richard