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

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2009, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908051724120.2147@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908052319210.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 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.

	-Daniel
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