Hacker News Reader

What is the current story for serving jj repositories over HTTPS? Git has https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco... . Does jj have something better, equivalent, or nothing (at this time) at all?

View on HN

Unless you're at Google (or writing your own backend), jj talks to a git server, and so you'd just do exactly that: host a git repo over https.

I am at Google, but that's probably not relevant since the reason I was curious about this is that my personal website currently implements a git server over HTTPS[1], and git's CLI/API for that is not the friendliest[2]. It sounds like jj hasn't reached the point of tackling this problem space yet, which is okay. Thanks for confirming I wasn't missing out on something.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/shurcooL/home/internal/code#Ne...

[2] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/shurcooL/home/cmd/githook/pre-...

Yeah all I meant to say is that `jj piper` exists in Google's private fork of jj, so not relevant for your case :)

You should be able to use jj with your server just fine.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com