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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: git protocol specification
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:47:50 +0000
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Tom Werner wrote:
> 
> > I'm working on a flexible Erlang replacement for git-daemon and would 
> > like to know if there is a specification available for the protocol that 
> > git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack use.
> 
> How about Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt?

You may also want to look at jgit's source code.  Its a cleaner
implementation of the protocol in 100% Java.  Not something you
would want to try and call directly from in Erlang, but it may
be easier to follow.

  http://repo.or.cz/w/egit.git/

Look inside of the org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/transport
package.  In particular the client side of the protocol for git://
is in the TransportGitAnon class as two inner subclasses, one for
fetch ('git-upload-pack') and another for push ('git-receive-pack').

-- 
Shawn.