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Sharing a public Darcs repo over HTTP [flow chart]

March 11th, 2008 by masukomi

The same friend who wondered about how to share a Git repo over HTTP dared to suggest that “It’s so easy with Hg…”. While I happen to disagree that it’s easier in Hg than Git, I think this flow chart successfully demonstrates that, on this front, Hg and Git both suck ass when compared to Darcs.

P.S. Yes, while 100% factual, the graph is also intentionally silly.

[update] After considering it more I think think it probably is easier to share a repo with Hg than Git, but I dislike the fact that it involves mucking about with things outside of the repo. You have to set up a CGI. You have to alter a config file that tells it what repos to share and where…. Yes, there’s a built in server you could use but that’s really an edge case. Most of the time you’ll want to leverage an existing web server.

3 Responses

Scott Bronson writes:
March 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

This flowchart works for git too. If you copy a git repo up to your server, you can immediately clone it:

scp -r my-git-project me@example.com:
cd /tmp
git clone http://example.com/my-git-project/.git

I don’t see how that’s any harder than Darcs…?
masukomi writes:
March 13th, 2008 at 8:18 am

The problem with that is that you can’t push to it. Unless you’re working with a bare repo Git will accept your pushes but it won’t commit them. Or, that’s my understanding of it. Yes, you could just keep re-uploading, and over-writing the repo on the server but that seems a crude work-around.
Mark Stosberg writes:
March 18th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Amusing. I love it!

Mark