Re: RFD: git-bzr: anyone interested?

From: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2010, 07:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4B7E3856.3080609@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1002181037n58d6942dpa63a57a23f506d9c@mail.gmail.com>

On 2010-02-18 13:37, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> By implementing a
> remote helper people can just clone a bzr url, and work with it in the
> exact same way that they would interact with a regular git repository.

This sounds great, it's exactly what I'm hoping to achieve with this project.

> If you're interested have a look at
> Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt, and read the mailing list
> archives on the subject.
>

The Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt file wasn't really of much help .. It really only barely scratches the subject, but it does not mention how remote-helpers really work internally (e.g. how do they get called: based on protocol used in URLs?)

I'm still trying to dig up information about how to actually build, test and use a remote helper. I'll probably be reading code for examples.

Another detail hit me: external interaction in git seems like it's almost always using librairies. If I'm not mistaken, bzr does not have a separate library. So to have access to it's API, you need bzr to be installed. This is why the current git-bzr script is using bzr + bzr-fastimport plugin to do the job. Is it normal / acceptable for a remote helper to have such dependancies?

And for the language used, maybe python could be logical if I can bind directly to Bazaar's API. Tell me what you think about this.

-- 
Gabriel Filion