Git fast HTTP cloning

[Edward Z. Yang]

+1 to this proposal.

Edward

Excerpts from Max Bolingbroke's message of Tue Aug 02 10:01:44 -0400 2011:
> Hi GHCers,
> 
> As far as I can tell, darcs.haskell.org does not use fast HTTP cloning
> for the GHC git repository. This means that:
>   1. Cloning the repository over HTTP taking ~7 minutes as opposed to
> the ~2.5 minutes in which I can get it from GitHub (at similar numbers
> of kb/s, saturating my home broadband)
>   2. You can't push over HTTP (might be convenient for those behind
> restrictive firewalls?)
> 
> This *may* also be behind the problem we are having with the GitHub
> mirroring of the GHC repos where it isn't syncing our latest changes,
> though we can't say for sure yet.
> 
> Would it be possible to set this up? It would be benefical even if
> it's not behind the GitHub problem.
> 
> Two things are necessary for the setup:
>   1. Update git to at least v1.6.6 (released January 2010, so
> hopefully available now?). Currently v1.5.6.5 is installed
>   2. Configure Apache 2 according to the instructions at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Max
>