Killing plaintext git:// in favor of https:// cloning

Ferry Huberts mailings at hupie.com
Mon Feb 22 20:18:06 CET 2016



On 22/02/16 19:16, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hello projects-with-mailing-lists,
>
> Now that git.zx2c4.com runs over HTTPS, I'm considering getting rid of
> the plaintext git:// endpoint for cloning.
>
> This means:
>
> git clone git://git.zx2c4.com/cgit
> -->
> git clone https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit
>
> git clone git://git.zx2c4.com/password-store
> -->
> git clone https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store
>
>
> Does anybody have any objections or comments?
>

Yes, why?
What's the point?

The repos are public, so cloning them over https bring nothing, except 
extra overhead and server load.


> Thanks,
> Jason
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