Re: [PATCH 07/13] Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs

> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > If this is set, the url is not required, and the transport always 
> > > > > uses a helper named "git-remote-<value>".
> > > > 
> > > > I wonder what's wrong with saying "git config remote.origin.url p4:" 
> > > > instead of having two different code paths that do essentially the 
> > > > same.
> > > 
> > > I believe some cases will want to use a URL which is "http://something" 
> > > and have some other option cause the code to use "git helper-svn".
> > 
> > I actually would rather have "svn-http://something" because it tells me 
> > right away and in red letters what is happening.
> 
> I think it's much more useful to have the URL that git uses for a 
> subversion repo be identical to the URL that svn uses for the same repo.
> 
> Of course, users should also be able to use something like 
> "svn-http://something" or "svn:http://something", but I think we'd get a 
> lot of confusion if we don't support a remote.*.url of exactly what a 
> svn-using project webpage says their repo url is.