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I've been using gitlab for the past few weeks to host a couple of repositories, it's awesome so far since it's the only solution that allowed me to mirror a repo AND create my own branch on the mirrored repository.

The only complaint I really have is the fact that I have to append a ".git" to the http url to clone the repository. Alternatively, it'd be nice to have a git:// read only url too.

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Feel free to open an issue both for the http clone without .git, it seems interesting but I'm not sure how complicated it is.

Not sure about the git:// read only url, I don't oversee the consequences.

The git:// protocol requires its own daemon (which is bundled with Git) running on port 9418 https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco... . The standard Git daemon is unsuitable for GitLab I think because of the way it manages access control.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon

For this to work in GitLab we would need to find or write an alternative implementation of the protocol.

Sounds like a lot of work to me when we already have decent HTTP clone access.

Hmm I was wrong, the current version of the built-in Git daemon has an --access-hook option so no problem there.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/56f37fda511e1615dc6df86c68f3...

The question is then: how badly do people want this and how many admins out there are willing to poke an extra hole in their firewall just for this protocol.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13838

Here you go https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13840

Thanks for the quick reply :)

Thanks! We'll follow up in the issue.

git has a default user agent that looks like git/2.0.0, so you could detect that and redirect. I believe this is how GitHub makes this work.

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