From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:15:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911041615o2a1afb6akdb120cdc94864e60@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd43xg7lf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 01:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> What do you mean by <alias> here?  Is it the <alias> in
>
>        [remote "alias"]
>                url = hg::http://some.where/repo/sito/ry.hg

Yes, that one.

> IOW, can a user ever use the foreign interface directly from the command
> line, without ever defining such entries in .git/config, perhaps using
> "git remote"?

No, my primary use case for remote helpers is currently 'git clone
hg::https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/', and to have 'git fetch origin'
Just Work (tm) from that clone. My secondary use case though, is to
support 'git fetch hg:: https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/' just as well
and have 'git log FETCH_HEAD' Just Work (tm) too. In that light
.git/info/remote-<vcs>/ is probably a better idea, so that the helper
can use say '.git/info/remote-<vcs>/fetch/ for one-time fetches.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier