From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:14:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Gate between git and mediawiki : remote-helpers
Message-ID: <7vd3j9wll0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqk4dhzsvh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

>>>        git clone --vcs=mediawiki http://some.where.xz/wiki/
>...
>> Is vcs a standard argument (I can't see it anywhere) or do we have to
>> change something in order to implement it?
>
> I don't know, but anyway, it could be
>
> git clone mediawiki+http://some.where.xz/wiki

I know it doesn't ;-)

As "clone" is a moral equivalent of "init" possibly followed by some
auto-configuration followed by "fetch" and "checkout", it is a natural
consequence of already supporting the "remove.<name>.vcs" configuration
variable, and if we want to avoid the insane svn+http:// syntax, it is a
logical thing to add such support.