GitHub com protocolo HTTP

Question

Eu li isso

HTTP, aka http://github.com
Doesn't work with GitHub anymore

No entanto, parece funcionar para mim

$ git clone http://github.com/antirez/redis
Cloning into 'redis'...
remote: Counting objects: 26084, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9644/9644), done.
remote: Total 26084 (delta 19341), reused 22821 (delta 16228)
Receiving objects: 100% (26084/26084), 6.10 MiB | 916.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19341/19341), done.
Checking connectivity... done

Eu entendo as implicações de segurança, mas gostaria de saber o status do uso do protocolo HTTP com o GitHub.

    

Answer 1

From: "Robert Sese (GitHub Staff)"

That's correct, we don't support git operations over HTTP.  If you add the verbose 
curl flag to your clone, you should see a redirect to HTTPS in the output:

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone http://github.com/antirez/redis