[PATCH v2] Support Git over HTTP using git-http-backend

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 at 17:55:41, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
> >
> > +http-backend-path::
> > +       Path to the git-http-backend smart HTTP backend binary.
> > +http-backend-path=/usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend
> >
> 
> Instead of all this, why not just a:
> 
> execlp("git", "git", "http-backend", NULL);
> 
> This leaves resolution to PATH and git's resolver, which should be more
> coherent.
> [...]

Making it configurable allows for using another smart HTTP backend,
though.