Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[David Lang]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Sean wrote:

> > also people could be behind a firewall that prevents git from working properly,
> > for them tarballs and patches are the right way of doing things.
>
> I use git from behind a firewall everyday without a problem.  If you've seen
> such a problem yourself, a bug report would hopefully lead to a solution.

it's not a bug, it's simply the fact that git (properly) uses it's own port for 
it's own protocol, and not all firewalls allow access to that port. in some 
cases even where a person would have the ability to get the firewall changed 
they may not want to for other (political) reasons.

even if git tunneled over HTTP there would be firewalls that would require 
authentication that git wouldn't be able to do and would therefor block the 
access.

David Lang
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