Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #05; Wed, 26)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2009, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzl9h9h70.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vskfat07h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>
>>> There was a discussion that suggests that the use of colon ':' before vcs
>>> helper name needs to be corrected.  Nothing happened since.
>>
>> I believe the outcome of that discussion was:
>>
>>  - We want to keep supporting using regular location URLs that are URLs of 
>>    git repositories (e.g., http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git), 
>>    and we probably want to do it with a helper which runs when 
>>    run_command() is given "remote-<scheme>". I think installing hardlinks 
>>    in EXECPATH ended up being the best implementation here.
>
> That is different from what I recall.
> ...
> And from my point of view, this is what is blocking the series...

Just to make my position clear.

I brought up the issue of "should we leave it as a single colon that confuses scp-like syntax and forces us to have three extra hardlinks?" in the message I am following up to, not because I firmly am on that side of the argument, but because I thought your version of "outcome" did not match my recollection around that particular issue. I am more or less neutral myself. Avoiding the confusion seems obviously the simple and right thing to do, and I cannot think of obvious downsides of such a change, but there probably are some downsides you have in mind, and I can well imagine the issue may become "perfect is the enemy of good".

And I said "blocking the series", not in the sense that _I_ demand to change it from colon to something else, but in the sense that I recall the issue hasn't been settled in the discussion.