Oh cool, looks like Microsoft decided it was time to break all my git://github.com/*/* mirrors.

https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/

On the Git protocol side, unencrypted git:// offers no integrity or authentication, making it subject to tampering. We expect very few people are still using this protocol, especially given that you can’t push (it’s read-only on GitHub). We’ll be disabling support for this protocol.

If only they knew that Git commits are a hash of the content of the commit, and cannot be tampered without changing the commit hashes.

@robby have a chat to @freemo as there is a git server hosted on qoto.

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@zleap

Indeed and you are more than welcome to use it. Its gitlab and all users get a free ultimate license (gitlab.com sells them for 100$/month). You can also host static web pages from it.

@robby

@freemo @zleap Oh thank you! My git server itself is still fine, it’s just that I need to change all my remotes for my mirrors from git:// to https://. It’s just annoying that they randomly decided to drop support for using git over the git protocol 🙄

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