From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:21:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow curl helper to work without a local repository
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0911040211240.14365@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0911032132v5e76e4b6n559169ad43d9f7c0@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Heya,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 03:52, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> > This is the simple change to let remote-curl work without a local
> > repository for git ls-remote; it leave the transport-helper code assuming
> > that all helpers can list without a local repo, which happens to be true
> > of this helper, the only one in current git.
> 
> Add a capability for it? :P

That's the longer-term patch, yes. But doing anything meaningful with that 
requires communicating down to transport-helper that we're not in a local 
repo, which shades into reworking the whole setup/environment code. That's 
why I went with the easy patch for now, since it does fix the bug.

	-Daniel
*This .sig left intentionally blank*