Shutting down of the git-daemon (git protocol, https and ssh still remain)

[Claudius Heine]

Hi Rasmus,

On 2024-06-12 1:18 pm, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 12/06/2024 12.20, Claudius Heine wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> in the past we used cgit, which provided cloning the u-boot repo via
>> http, https, ssh and the git protocol.
>>
>> When we migrated to gitlab, which doesn't support the git protocol, we
>> implemented some additional service files to continue to support it for
>> some of our git repositories.
>>
>> We just noticed that cloning via the git protocol is currently broken,
>> likely some changes in gitlab happened and we would need to recreate the
>> symlinks on the server to point to the right repositories again.
>>
>> Since that is another thing to maintain and keep up, we would like to
>> just shut the git protocol down. AFAIK most projects moved to use https
>> for cloning anyway, since there were not many reports of broken cloning.
>>
>> What are your thoughts? Is it worth the effort to keep the git protocol up?
> 
> So I don't think you should necessarily keep the git:// working if it
> means extra maintenance. I just checked a couple of my local copies of
> u-boot.git (don't ask, it's many different customer projects) and it
> seems to be more or less random if I added upstream with git:// or
> https:// . I can certainly change those, and thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I'm just wondering if it's possible to have the server send some message
> to the client when the git protocol is used, for some deprecation period
> (6 months?), so a developer doing "git remote update" will get notified.
> He would then also have a chance to propagate that to whatever local CI
> he's responsible for, instead of only noticing when things do start
> breaking.

We are using `git-daemon` and there is a `--accept-hook` which can print 
a single line to the requestor, but only if the request is denied.
So there doesn't seem to be a way to implement a deprecation period.

regards,
Claudius

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