From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:04:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory
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In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0911041406tce0956ai2ad3fe6cfbdc546d@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

>> In any case, I think it would be good to have
>> something like that, but I think maybe we should tell it where it can put
>> its status files, rather than telling it where the .git dir is.
>
> Yes, that would probably be a good idea, .git/info/remote-<vcs>/<alias> perhaps?

What do you mean by <alias> here?  Is it the <alias> in

	[remote "alias"]
                url = hg::http://some.where/repo/sito/ry.hg

IOW, can a user ever use the foreign interface directly from the command
line, without ever defining such entries in .git/config, perhaps using
"git remote"?