Selfhosting git with cgit and git-http-backend

I&rsquo;ve been self-hosting my git repositories for some time, but I&rsquo;ve just upgraded them to use git-http-backend. Previously, clones were served by cgit (and before that by gitweb), which both present as a &ldquo;dumb HTTP transport&rdquo;. The smart protocol is much faster, though, especially with relatively high latency like my repositories tend to have. Git includes a CGI…