From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:34:12 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #05; Sat, 21)
Message-ID: <20100822123412.GA22353@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7v4oen5clj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:30:00AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> * il/rfc-remote-fd-ext (2010-08-14) 6 commits
>  - Fix build on Windows
>  - Simplify send_git_request()
>  - Rewrite bidirectional traffic loop
>  - gitignore: Ignore the new /git-remote-{ext,fd} helpers
>  - New remote helper: git-remote-ext
>  - New remote helper git-remote-fd
> 
> I haven't heard anything about this series.  Is it desirable?  Or is it
> not used by anybody and just another baggage we'd rather not carry?

Well, as said in series introduction, some possible uses:
- ssh with odd options without editing ssh_config (this ocassionally pops up
on #git, especially with keypair setting, dunno how much of that is
XY-problem and how much is not).
- TLS-tunneling git://.
- etc...

And yes, I use it a lot internally.

-Ilari