From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:54:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Gate between git and mediawiki : remote-helpers
Message-ID: <BANLkTikax2T3BFs_wac-W8tWeiZ=YHsxvg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3j9wll0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:14, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

We currently support either:

git clone mediawiki::http://some.where.xz/wiki

Or say:

git clone svn://example.com/some/svn/repo

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier