From bb35ed60d6f8a9d362695e96d22d28f49eec7f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: June McEnroe <june@causal.agency>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 16:11:40 -0400
Subject: Update cgit setup post with git-http-backend

---
 www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

(limited to 'www')

diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7
index a779c104..44fb436a 100644
--- a/www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7
+++ b/www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7
@@ -240,5 +240,32 @@ so that
 .Xr git-pull 1
 continues to work on existing clones.
 .
+.Ss Update: fast HTTPS clones
+Someone pointed out that cloning my repos
+over HTTPS was incredibly slow,
+and this is because cgit only implements the
+.Dq dumb
+HTTP git transport.
+To speed up cloning,
+I send the URLs used by the
+.Dq smart
+HTTP transport to
+.Xr git-http-backend 1
+instead:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+location ~ /.+/(info/refs|git-upload-pack) {
+	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/slowcgi.sock;
+	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend;
+	fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL 1;
+	fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/june/pub;
+	include fastcgi_params;
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+I factored out the FastCGI parameters
+I'm using with cgit
+to be included here as well.
+.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
-- 
cgit 1.4.1