Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] Improve your performance with our patch

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 28, 2009, 13:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907281528260.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640907280550g22e922fue0bbeeed36fba497@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Reece Dunn wrote:

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> 2009/7/28 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> >
> >>  Documentation/git-shim.txt           |   37 +++++++++
> >
> > May I re-register my complaint about the naming?
> >
> > I mean, yes, I could think of something even worse when it comes to the
> > (ridiculously bad!) tradition of naming things "porcelain", "plumbing" and
> > "potty", especially when it comes to "pushing objects" and
> > then "pulling".
> >
> > But now that we had a good laugh, it is time to get serious again, and
> > give this child a _way_ better name.
> >
> > I mean, you already had a good name for your foreign scm series.  Why did
> > you give that up in favor of this lousy naming?
> 
> How about git-http?

If 'git-fetch' learns to search for a helper by the name of the protocol (as it should learn), this will obviously fail with svn://.

Ciao, Dscho