Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Git remote helpers to implement smart transports.
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
- Date
- Dec 2, 2009, 18:50 UTC
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- <fabb9a1e0912021050r4fd96ed4rf863917a965a42fb@mail.gmail.com>
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Heya,
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 19:41, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> When the second implementation of http handler proves to be better than > the current one, we can flip the mapping, and anybody who were using > "http://" to access some repository will automatically updated to use the > new backend instead of the old one. With your scheme, you probably could > change the name of the old "http" backend to "http-deprecated" and the new > one from "second-class-citizen-http" to "http" to achieve a similar > effect, but I do not think it is as nice as having one extra level of > indirection.
I don't see how what you are talking about is any different. With the mapping the executable of the alternative implementation still needs to have a different name, no?
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier