From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:50:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Git remote helpers to implement smart transports.
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0912021050r4fd96ed4rf863917a965a42fb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4x5fcbf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 19:41, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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