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

[Jeff Cody]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:55:05AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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, it is a good idea.  I think Peter also brought this up once before,
if I am not mistaken.  I'll work on implementing that today.

-Jeff