[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/8] Implement basic non-wget download methods

[Michael S. Zick <minimod@morethan.org>]

On Thu September 2 2010, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:37:43 -0500
> "Michael S. Zick" <minimod@morethan.org> wrote:
> 
> > For the cases where the protocol scheme does not appear in the URI
> > that the user would input (such as private repository access via ssl)
> > -
> > 
> > Will that _SITE_METHOD variable be able to override the autodetection?
> 
> Yes :
> 
> +ifndef $(2)_SITE_METHOD
> + ifdef $(3)_SITE_METHOD
> +  $(2)_SITE_METHOD = $($(3)_SITE_METHOD)
> + else
> +	# Try automatic detection using the scheme part of the URI
> +	$(2)_SITE_METHOD = $(firstword $(subst ://, ,$(call
> qstrip,$($(2)_SITE))))
> + endif
> +endif
> 
> So, if FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD is already defined, nothing happens. What
> this thing does is :
> 
>  1. Define HOST_FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD to FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD if
>     FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD is defined but not HOST_FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD
> 
>  2. Define (HOST_)FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD to an autodected scheme is
>     (HOST_)FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD is not defined.
> 
> So whenever FOOBAR_SITE_METHOD is defined, it will take precedence over
> the autodetection.
> 
> > Both git and hg (Mercurial) can use ssl/ssh to identify users with
> > access to a repository. I do not know about svn, never studied or
> > used it that much. In the case of git, the following is the _only_
> > way to identify private users: (Since git does not accept a ssh://
> > scheme in its command parse.)
> 
> I must be missing something: 
>

Yup.
Please supply git version number(s).
Any additional patches or local changes / customizations to your git client?

Mike
> I'm using 
> ssh://uclibc.org/home/tpetazzoni/git/buildroot.git as a Git URL to push
> things to my private Buildroot repository hosted at uclibc.org.
> 
> As far as I see, Gitolite introduces per-branch or per-tag permissions,
> but plain Git already allows per-repository permissions. No ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas