Hi!
I am looking for Dathorn to supporting git on their servers. I guess I don't have to introduce the system since everybody knows about its unique advantages and spend everybody's time praising its speed, flexibility etc.
The deal is that it's not supported at the moment. What I mean by support is that the git client and tools are not installed on the servers. Of course, it is still possible to mount a Dathorn account as sshfs and do clones from there, but you can't init and clone the repositories on the server side. Another major inconvenience is that if I manually install gitweb for an account it will simply not work, because git command-line utilities are missing.
I am not sure whether it is possible to provide us with a way of running git-daemon to make things easy, but having the utilities installed will be already of huge help, because then, not only the repos can be trivially served over HTTP, but also it would be possible to install a local instance of gitweb.
By the way, it is possible to grant commit rights via WebDAV, so if there are any plans to make WebDAV available, then git-daemon really becomes unnecessary.
The backported Fedora git packages for RHEL are available here: http://jupiterrise.com/blog/jrpms/ . EPEL packages are an option, although they suck. We are working into getting good packages into RPMForge, but it's yet unclear when this will happen.
To summarize, I think that initial support for git will not practically cost anything but will be of great benefit for the customers. Why wouldn't we give it a whirl?
Thanks.
I am looking for Dathorn to supporting git on their servers. I guess I don't have to introduce the system since everybody knows about its unique advantages and spend everybody's time praising its speed, flexibility etc.
The deal is that it's not supported at the moment. What I mean by support is that the git client and tools are not installed on the servers. Of course, it is still possible to mount a Dathorn account as sshfs and do clones from there, but you can't init and clone the repositories on the server side. Another major inconvenience is that if I manually install gitweb for an account it will simply not work, because git command-line utilities are missing.
I am not sure whether it is possible to provide us with a way of running git-daemon to make things easy, but having the utilities installed will be already of huge help, because then, not only the repos can be trivially served over HTTP, but also it would be possible to install a local instance of gitweb.
By the way, it is possible to grant commit rights via WebDAV, so if there are any plans to make WebDAV available, then git-daemon really becomes unnecessary.
The backported Fedora git packages for RHEL are available here: http://jupiterrise.com/blog/jrpms/ . EPEL packages are an option, although they suck. We are working into getting good packages into RPMForge, but it's yet unclear when this will happen.
To summarize, I think that initial support for git will not practically cost anything but will be of great benefit for the customers. Why wouldn't we give it a whirl?
Thanks.
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