Re: How to make Cogito use git-fetch-pack?

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2005, 18:10 UTC
Message-ID: <43383999.8090508@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <4334B428.7020608@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
>> Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:20:08AM CEST, I got a letter
>> where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...
>>
>>> Is there any way to make Cogito use git-fetch-pack instead of 
>>> git-ssh-fetch?  git+ssh:// seems to invoke the latter.
>>
>>
>> I just added git+packed+ssh:// to be used for this purpose.
>>
> 
> Since git tends to use "pack" (e.g. git-fetch-pack) I'd suggest use 
> git+pack+ssh:// instead.  It's shorter, too.
>

I thought some more about this, and realized that it really doesn't make sense for there to be another name for this. Simply put, git+ssh:// requires ssh access and git to be present on the other side, and within those parameters it should use whatever access method is most effective. Thus, having a separate URL type only makes sense if something is fundamentally and user-visibly different between the two.

	-hpa