[Qemu-devel] enabling smart-http git protocol on git.qemu.org

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 June 2018 at 10:47, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 12:32:01PM +0300, Iliya Dyachenko wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Iliya Dyachenko <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  .gitmodules | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
>> index 49e9c2e3f4..e6bc732d16 100644
>> --- a/.gitmodules
>> +++ b/.gitmodules
>> @@ -1,48 +1,48 @@
>>  [submodule "roms/vgabios"]
>>       path = roms/vgabios
>> -     url = git://git.qemu-project.org/vgabios.git/
>> +     url = https://git.qemu.org/git/vgabios.git
>
> [snip]
>
> This is highly desirable, however, we cannot do it right now.
>
> The git.qemu.org server is still using the dumb git http protocol, so it
> would be a performance regression over git://
>
> We need the server config fixing to use the smart http protocol.
>
> Essentially this just involves configuring apache to add
>
>   <Directory /usr/libexec/git-core>
>     Allow from all
>   </Directory>
>
>   SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /data/git
>
>   ScriptAliasMatch "^/git/(.*\.git/(HEAD|info/refs))$" \
>     /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
>   ScriptAliasMatch "^/git/(.*\.git/git-(upload|receive)-pack)$" \
>     /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1

Sounds like a good idea -- I've cc'd Jeff and Stefan (who
are the people who care for our git server)...

thanks
-- PMM