From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:41:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 09/16] Move WebDAV HTTP push under remote-curl
Message-ID: <20091013044141.GA18961@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <1255400715-10508-10-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 07:25:08PM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> The remote helper interface now supports the push capability,
> which can be used to ask the implementation to push one or more
> specs to the remote repository.  For remote-curl we implement this
> by calling the existing WebDAV based git-http-push executable.
> 
> Internally the helper interface uses the push_refs transport hook
> so that the complexity of the refspec parsing and matching can be
> reused between remote implementations.  When possible however the
> helper protocol uses source ref name rather than the source SHA-1,
> thereby allowing the helper to access this name if it is useful.

It's been a while I haven't followed changes in the remote code but this
looks nice, though I haven't checked thoroughly. I guess the next step
would be to kill http-push as an external program.

Mike