Re: [PATCH 5/8] Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:15, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> >
> >> If this is set, the url is not required, and the transport always uses
> >> a helper named "git-remote-<value>".
> >>
> >> It is a separate configuration option in order to allow a sensible
> >> configuration for foreign systems which either have no meaningful urls
> >> for repositories or which require urls that do not specify the system
> >> used by the repository at that location. However, this only affects
> >> how the name of the helper is determined, not anything about the
> >> interaction with the helper, and the contruction is such that, if the
> >> foreign scm does happen to use a co-named url method, a url with that
> >> method may be used directly.
> >
> > Personally, I do not like this.
> >
> > Why isn't it enough to define the canonical remote name git takes as
> > "<name of the helper>:<whatever string the helper understands>"?
> 
> May I ask what will happen to these supported URL notations:
> 
> 
>        o   [user@]host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/
> 
>        o   [user@]host.xz:~user/path/to/repo.git/
> 
>        o   [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git
> 
> this will bite you, if you have an ssh host alias named "<your
> favorite helper name>".