Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] git-remote-fd

From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Sep 30, 2010, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20100930134404.GA22521@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20100930131440.GE4850@burratino>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:14:40AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Hi Ilari,
> 
> Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> 
> > This remote helper reflects raw smart remote transport stream back to the
> > calling program. This is useful for example if some UI wants to handle
> > ssh itself and not use hacks via GIT_SSH.
> 
> Do you ever use this directly, or is it a "because we can" sort of thing?
> Whenever I try to come up with an example, ext:: seems to be easier.

I don't have any UIs that would want to override SSH, git:// or something like that, so no. ext:: sees lots of internal use.

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> > +<anything> can be any string. It is ignored. It is meant for provoding
> > +information to user in form of "URL".
> 
> Is this meant for future expansion?  Why not just use a comment in
> .git/config?

These URLs are not meant to go into .git/config.

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> > +EXAMPLES:
> > +---------
> > +"fd::17"::
> > +	Connect using socket in file descriptor #17.
> 
> Maybe with more context?
> 
> 	socat ... "git push fd::3 HEAD" ...

More like something execing git, having open connection to some git repo.

If you want stuff like that (using socat to establish connections), use ext::

-Ilari