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| author | Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> | 2025-05-12 11:19:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-05-12 10:55:46 -0700 |
| commit | 1248fb08d7e87911487fefb9f514d39eb5f4ddcb (patch) | |
| tree | eca8ea85cda53de7bdb1a7ba8730858f3572abab /contrib/persistent-https/README | |
| parent | 21b4f9009dd5a03e8c16d2c9473c896cff791001 (diff) | |
| download | git-1248fb08d7e87911487fefb9f514d39eb5f4ddcb.tar.gz | |
contrib: remove "persistent-https" remote helper
The "persistent-https" remote helper supposedly speeds up SSL operations
by running a daemon that keeps a connection open to a remote server. It
is effectively unmaintained nowadays: the last time it received an
update was in accb613afd2 (contrib/persistent-https: use Git version for
build label, 2016-07-20) and its parent commits to make it compile with
Go 1.7+.
This Go toolchain is somewhat dated by now though and unsupported. The
oldest still-supported toolchain is Go 1.23, which was released in
August 2024. It is not possible to compile the remote helper with that
Go version anymore:
$ go version
go version go1.23.8 linux/amd64
$ make
case $(go version) in \
"go version go"1.[0-5].*) EQ=" " ;; *) EQ="=" ;; esac && \
go build -o git-remote-persistent-https \
-ldflags "-X main._BUILD_EMBED_LABEL${EQ}GIT_VERSION=2.49.0.943.g965a70ebf62"
go: cannot find main module, but found .git/config in /home/pks/Development/git
to create a module there, run:
cd ../.. && go mod init
make: *** [Makefile:31: git-remote-persistent-https] Error 1
The problem is that modern Go toolchains require a "go.mod" file, but we
don't have any such files. This requirement exists since quite a while
already, so it's clear that nobody has tried to use this remote helper
anytime recent.
Remove the remote helper.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/persistent-https/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/persistent-https/README | 72 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 72 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/persistent-https/README b/contrib/persistent-https/README deleted file mode 100644 index 7c4cd8d257..0000000000 --- a/contrib/persistent-https/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -git-remote-persistent-https - -The git-remote-persistent-https binary speeds up SSL operations -by running a daemon job (git-remote-persistent-https--proxy) that -keeps a connection open to a server. - - -PRE-BUILT BINARIES - -Darwin amd64: -https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-remote-persistent-https/darwin_amd64.tar.gz - -Linux amd64: -https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-remote-persistent-https/linux_amd64.tar.gz - - -INSTALLING - -Move all of the git-remote-persistent-http* binaries to a directory -in PATH. - - -USAGE - -HTTPS requests can be delegated to the proxy by using the -"persistent-https" scheme, e.g. - -git clone persistent-https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git - -Likewise, .gitconfig can be updated as follows to rewrite https urls -to use persistent-https: - -[url "persistent-https"] - insteadof = https -[url "persistent-http"] - insteadof = http - -You may also want to allow the use of the persistent-https helper for -submodule URLs (since any https URLs pointing to submodules will be -rewritten, and Git's out-of-the-box defaults forbid submodules from -using unknown remote helpers): - -[protocol "persistent-https"] - allow = always -[protocol "persistent-http"] - allow = always - - -##################################################################### -# BUILDING FROM SOURCE -##################################################################### - -LOCATION - -The source is available in the contrib/persistent-https directory of -the Git source repository. The Git source repository is available at -git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ -https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git - - -PREREQUISITES - -The code is written in Go (http://golang.org/) and the Go compiler is -required. Currently, the compiler must be built and installed from tip -of source, in order to include a fix in the reverse http proxy: -http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=a615b796570a2cd8591884767a7d67ede74f6648 - - -BUILDING - -Run "make" to build the binaries. See the section on -INSTALLING above. |