From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4 v2] Implement a basic remote helper for svn in C. Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:54:26 -0500 Message-ID: <20120726145426.GB3058@burratino> References: <1338830455-3091-1-git-send-email-florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com> <358E6F1E-8BAD-4F82-B270-0233AB86EF66@gmail.com> <20120726114039.GA6712@burratino> <1486896.KW3TvzfC56@flomedio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steven Michalske , Florian Achleitner , git@vger.kernel.org, David Michael Barr , Sverre Rabbelier , Jeff King , Johannes Sixt , Ramkumar Ramachandra To: Florian Achleitner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 16:54:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SuPSX-0002ku-Ob for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:54:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751977Ab2GZOyc (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:54:32 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:46850 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104Ab2GZOyb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:54:31 -0400 Received: by gglu4 with SMTP id u4so2028825ggl.19 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:54:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=vIMfODph64WAEdRdaWQtamv4taQ/taED43H5W42cwSw=; b=MTz6cI2oiHikTvfVKevT4nO4Rqn+Jh7bVzl8Ae1UtswHaUm2D2GKSNnjZwa7ig4p0+ X3lUkajhzyyGUZpcQ5AXFAtM20w2WaQF1jF8D2/HofqVBE7ZftLhPHJAiDGZKCltOYsF MUQyZ1x0Uhp4MnIqK5Q9qhCBg98y1xJQ3MRED3JBWyqDMLHacGXGjBm44cpa/XqTT1ih g3A25KeUVxXow/diMwA1/UpBpqOYdgq3GFOMa5A8p4OsYIZttqVNp6va4OgielmNr0Fd 5dIo3WYwQKefUjnSPZT7lKZh9GhWlKQ+ySB7Qb+5UVGCyBrnXg8IRjoxBt2cmMKgZPhd OiHQ== Received: by 10.50.187.226 with SMTP id fv2mr1882873igc.47.1343314470381; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burratino (guardian2.ccc.edu. [216.125.49.252]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ch4sm3563689igb.2.2012.07.26.07.54.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1486896.KW3TvzfC56@flomedio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: (cc-ing Ram since he's also knowledgeable about remote-helper protocol) Florian Achleitner wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2012 06:40:39 Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Though I still >> think the way forward is to keep using plain pipes internally for now >> and to make the bidirectional communication optional, since it >> wouldn't close any doors to whatever is most convenient on each >> platform. Hopefully I'll hear more from Florian about this in time. > > Would you like to see a new pipe patch? Since the svn remote helper relies on this, it seems worth working on, yeah. As for how to spend your time (and whether to beg someone else to work on it instead :)): I'm not sure what's on your plate or where you are with respect to the original plan for the summer at the moment, so it would be hard for me to give useful advice about how to balance things. What did you think of the suggestion of adding a new bidi-import capability and command to the remote helper protocol? I think this would be clean and avoid causing a regression on Windows, but it's easily possible I am missing something fundamental. Thanks, Jonathan