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Re: [PATCH 5/8] Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2009, 03:26 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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>> I have no problem with that, and I think it makes it even more visually
>> obvious what is going. For example:
>> 
>>   svn::http://server/path/to/repo
>> 
>> makes the "svn" prefix jump out a bit more.
>
> ... and http:://repo.or.cz/r/git.git ?  Thanks.  But no, thanks.
Huh?

If you meant a "canonical format that always spells out the name of the helper, and then whatever string the chosen helper uses to identify the repository", that would be spelled as:

	libcurl::http://repo.or.cz/r/git.git/

and will be handled by a single helper, git-remote-libcurl, that is essentially what Linus and Daniel ejected from the builtin.

And in fact, that would be vastly more sensible than "we have one helper that uses libcurl, but we hide the implementation detail and call the helper with three names git-remote-{http,https,ftp}, so you would spell the repository http://repo.or.cz/r/git.git/", which is what we have queued in 'next/pu'.

And of course the use of "canonical format" for transports that git traditionally has known about is only for consistency; we would want to give shortcut for them. Obviously we would want "http://<anything>" to be a short-hand for "curl::http://<anything>".

Previous: Johannes Schindelin
Message 35 of 35 in “Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs”
  1. 5/8 Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcsDaniel Barkalow, Aug 9, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 9, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2009
  4. Daniel BarkalowAug 10, 2009
  5. Johan HerlandAug 10, 2009
  6. Daniel BarkalowAug 10, 2009
  7. 0/6 Graceful handling of missing remote helpersJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  8. 1/6 Minor unrelated fixesJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  9. 2/6 transport_get(): Don't SEGFAULT on missing urlJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2009
  11. Johan HerlandAug 12, 2009
  12. 3/6 Move setup of curl remote helper from transport.c to transport-helper.cJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  13. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2009
  14. 4/6 Add is_git_command_or_alias() for checking availability of a given git commandJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  15. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2009
  16. 5/6 Let transport_helper_init() decide if a remote helper program can be usedJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  17. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2009
  18. Daniel BarkalowAug 11, 2009
  19. Jeff KingAug 12, 2009
  20. Daniel BarkalowAug 12, 2009
  21. 6/6 Add testcase to verify handling of missing remote helper programsJohan Herland, Aug 11, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2009
  25. Bert WesargAug 11, 2009
  26. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2009
  27. Jeff KingAug 11, 2009
  28. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2009
  29. Jeff KingAug 12, 2009
  30. Jakub NarebskiAug 12, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2009
  32. Jakub NarebskiAug 13, 2009
  33. Jeff KingAug 11, 2009
  34. Johannes SchindelinAug 12, 2009
  35. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2009

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