db/transport-shim, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2009, #02; Sun, 26)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 26, 2009, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907261232280.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7viqhfrfu5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * db/transport-shim (Sat Jul 25 13:51:40 2009 -0400) 3 commits
>  - git-http-fetch: not a builtin
>  - Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
>  - Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
> 
> Interesting as a concept.  I saw its ls-remote segfault on me, though.
> Hopefully will mature by 1.6.5 final.
> 
> [...]
>
> * db/foreign-scm (Tue Mar 24 23:04:12 2009 -0400) 3 commits
>  - Add option for using a foreign VCS
>  - Document details of transport function APIs
>  - Allow late reporting of fetched hashes
> 
> I have a feeling that the recent transport-shim series from the same
> author could supersede this one.

Oh, you mean that the foreign scm helpers would turn into shim helpers, which could then either call fast-import directly or use another helper?

Interesting, Dscho