From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Git remote helpers to implement smart transports. Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:52:45 -0800 Message-ID: <20091201165245.GF21299@spearce.org> References: <1259675838-14692-1-git-send-email-ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sverre Rabbelier , git@vger.kernel.org To: Ilari Liusvaara X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 01 17:52:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NFVyB-0002sM-7k for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:52:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754134AbZLAQwo (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:52:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753841AbZLAQwo (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:52:44 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:61625 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753834AbZLAQwn (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:52:43 -0500 Received: by yxe17 with SMTP id 17so4730158yxe.33 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.135.38 with SMTP id m38mr2483711ann.163.1259686368525; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:52:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (george.spearce.org [209.20.77.23]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm119220yxe.54.2009.12.01.08.52.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:52:47 -0800 (PST) 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: Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 14:57, Ilari Liusvaara > wrote: > > This series implements extensions to remote helpers for carrying smary > > transports. It is against next, because master doesn't contain necressary > > patches (the allow specifying remote helper in url one). > > Could you please explain how this relates to Shawn's smart http series > and the sr/vcs-helper series? Or better, why this is even necessary? I thought git:// over TCP is pretty simple and efficient, and fairly widely deployed. Smart http(s):// will be in 1.6.6 and available soon, and isn't all that ugly. Since the introduction of git:// nobody has asked for another protocol... other than wanting to make http:// as efficient as git:// is. Which is now done. So why do we need this? The sr/vcs-helper series makes sense if you want to make SVN, Hg, or P4 remotes act transparently like Git remotes. But that's not embedding the git:// protocol inside of another protocol, its doing a full up conversion from a non-Git set of semantics to Git semantics. -- Shawn.