From: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: change git.samba.org to https
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:54:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f3a633a-2992-45fe-8a97-43d217953d84@samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ff0bc80-f94c-4cc9-b85a-0ddc1393c9a1@samba.org>
Am 28.11.25 um 19:00 schrieb Stefan Metzmacher via samba-technical:
> Am 28.11.25 um 18:48 schrieb Steve French:
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is the preferred way to access the server.
>>
>> Are you sure that is the preferred way? 75% of the entries in
>> MAINTAINERS use "git git://" not "git http://" but ... I did notice
>> that for all github and gitlab ones they use "git http://"
>
> It seems a lot of them were created long time ago.
>
>> But maybe for samba.org there is an advantage to https?!
>
> Yes, the admins of git.samba.org prefer that clients use https://
> instead of git://
>
> I also checked what linux-net uses and it also uses https most of the time:
>
> $ git lo -187 linux-next/master | grep 'Merge branch .*\/\/'| grep https | wc -l
> 178
> $ git lo -187 linux-next/master | grep 'Merge branch .*\/\/'| grep -v https | cut -d ' ' -f2-
> Merge branch 'main' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/xarray.git
> Merge branch 'master' of git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog-next.git
> Merge branch 'master' of git://git.code.sf.net/p/tomoyo/tomoyo.git
> Merge branch 'next' of git://linuxtv.org/media-ci/media-pending.git
> Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux.git
> Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git
can you submit this during the current merge window?
Here's the commit again:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/20251128134951.2331836-1-metze@samba.org/
Thanks!
metze
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-15 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-28 13:49 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: change git.samba.org to https Stefan Metzmacher
2025-11-28 17:48 ` Steve French
2025-11-28 18:00 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2025-11-28 18:15 ` Steve French
2025-11-28 18:51 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2025-11-28 22:35 ` Namjae Jeon
2026-04-15 13:54 ` Stefan Metzmacher [this message]
2026-04-15 22:59 ` Steve French
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