Serving a Website from a Git Repo Without Cloning It

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  • scalar

    Scalar: A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow very large monorepos to run on Git without a virtualization layer (by microsoft)

  • Congratulations! That means you basically figured out how the clone procedure works and found a way to do so just in a partial way (also in an unsafe way). But it is a cool idea, nonetheless.

    Also check out the Scalar [1] project and its predecessor, GVFS [2], both from Microsoft to manage their monorepo via a VFS layer.

    [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar

    [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit

  • VFSForGit

    Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale

  • Congratulations! That means you basically figured out how the clone procedure works and found a way to do so just in a partial way (also in an unsafe way). But it is a cool idea, nonetheless.

    Also check out the Scalar [1] project and its predecessor, GVFS [2], both from Microsoft to manage their monorepo via a VFS layer.

    [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar

    [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit

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  • > GitHub.com no longer supports git over dumb-http: https://github.com/blog/809-git-dumb-http-transport-to-be-tu...

  • > GitHub.com no longer supports git over dumb-http: https://github.com/blog/809-git-dumb-http-transport-to-be-tu...

  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

  • I was checking if this would be possible with GitHub, but querying the dumb protocol at https://github.com///info/refs just returns the following

    > Please upgrade your git client.

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