From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:31:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20090427203133.GG23604@spearce.org> References: <200904260703.31243.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <4d8e3fd30904260123r35b6a348uab3ad22fde9daa3f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Blewitt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 27 22:31:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LyXUP-0002wd-N8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:31:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751219AbZD0Ube (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752148AbZD0Ube (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:31:34 -0400 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:58589 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbZD0Ubd (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:31:33 -0400 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6DDDA38215; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Blewitt wrote: > Johannes Schindelin gmx.de> writes: > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > > > On 4/26/09, Jakub Narebski gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Perhaps it is time to restart work on _"smart" HTTP protocol_? > > > > > > > > wasn't Shawn working on it? Errh, uhm, yes, I had planned to work on it. I failed to find the time. Gerrit Code Review and the necessary patches to JGit have basically sucked up any time that I have, for anything. Oh, and so has "repo", the hack^W^W^W^tool Android uses to manage its forrest of 140+ Git repositories. > > > GIVE HIM A BREAK! > > > > Sorry. While it reflects exactly what I felt reading your mail, I should > > have phrased it like this: > > > > Don't ask what Shawn can do for you. Ask what you can do for > > Shawn. > > It's something I raised a while ago with the eclipse.egit discussion; I'm happy > to step forward and see what I can do to improve the HTTP access, since I > think that's critical for adoption in organizations who, through no fault of > the end user, are either not directly connected to the internet or have to go > via HTTP proxies due to firewall limitations. I'm quite looking forward to this. I'm thrilled to see another person is interested in better HTTP support, and is trying to work on it. -- Shawn.