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Re: RFD: git-bzr: anyone interested?

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ILIlari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date
Feb 22, 2010, 10:51 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:42:54PM -0500, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> On 2010-02-19 08:55, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
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> However, when I tried creating a git-remote-bzr+ssh link pointing to the
> git-remote-bzr script so that URLs like bzr+ssh://something/somewhere
> (this is how ssh is used with Bazaar) got handed down to the dummy
> script, it kept saying the "bzr+ssh" protocol wasn't handled. So, it
> would seem I can't have special characters in the helper script name.

Yeah, it seems like remote helper names can't have non-alphanum characters (oops).

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> How could I get this protocol to be handled by the remote helper? Having
> to type bzr::bzr+ssh://something/somewhere looks like a really awkward
> thing to write. Also, requiring users to add something to a protocol
> that already identifies the type of remote repository (and, that is
> already well known and used by users of bzr) is not interesting in a
> usability point of view.
bzr::ssh://something/somewhere ?
That goes to git-remote-bzr (as 'ssh://something/somewhere').
-Ilari
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Message 11 of 30 in “RFD: git-bzr: anyone interested?”
  1. Gabriel FilionFeb 18, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierFeb 18, 2010
  3. Gabriel FilionFeb 19, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierFeb 19, 2010
  5. GabrielFeb 19, 2010
  6. Sverre RabbelierFeb 19, 2010
  7. Writing git remote helpersGabriel, Feb 19, 2010
  8. Gabriel FilionFeb 22, 2010
  9. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 19, 2010
  10. Gabriel FilionFeb 22, 2010
  11. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 22, 2010
  12. Gabriel FilionFeb 23, 2010
  13. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 23, 2010
  14. Chris PackhamApr 26, 2010
  15. Dmitrijs LedkovsApr 26, 2010
  16. Chris PackhamApr 27, 2010
  17. Miles BaderApr 27, 2010
  18. Gabriel FilionApr 27, 2010
  19. Dmitrijs LedkovsApr 27, 2010
  20. Chris PackhamApr 27, 2010
  21. Chris PackhamApr 27, 2010
  22. Dmitrijs LedkovsApr 27, 2010
  23. Conrad ParkerAug 6, 2010
  24. Miles BaderAug 7, 2010
  25. Gabriel FilionAug 7, 2010
  26. Miles BaderAug 7, 2010
  27. git-archimport (was: Re: RFD: git-bzr: anyone interested?)Jakub Narebski, Aug 7, 2010
  28. Matthieu MoyAug 7, 2010
  29. Felipe ContrerasFeb 20, 2010
  30. Gabriel FilionFeb 22, 2010

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