[yocto] why is YOCTO_GIT_URL defined to use http?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   in documentation, curious about:
>
> poky.ent:<!ENTITY YOCTO_GIT_URL "http://git.yoctoproject.org">
>
> why is this entity defined to use http:// instead of git://?  if you
> use http://, it doesn't work:
>
> $ git clone http://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git git
> Cloning into git...
> fatal: http://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git/info/refs not found: did
> you run git update-server-info on the server?
> $

  now that i'm awake, i can expand on the above.  it seems that you
simply can't use a single entity for this since you can use it in two
different contexts:

  1) for browsing (http://)
  2) for cloning (git://)

isn't the obvious solution to define two different entities, to be
used depending on the context?

rday

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