From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: How to make Cogito use git-fetch-pack? Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:10:33 -0700 Message-ID: <43383999.8090508@zytor.com> References: <43347F98.6020101@zytor.com> <20050924011912.GK10255@pasky.or.cz> <4334B428.7020608@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Petr Baudis , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 26 20:12:51 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJxRG-0003jd-Ns for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:10:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932454AbVIZSKu (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932455AbVIZSKu (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:10:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:23471 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932454AbVIZSKt (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:10:49 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8QIAZ0q025186 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:10:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <4334B428.7020608@zytor.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Petr Baudis wrote: > >> Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:20:08AM CEST, I got a letter >> where "H. Peter Anvin" told me that... >> >>> Is there any way to make Cogito use git-fetch-pack instead of >>> git-ssh-fetch? git+ssh:// seems to invoke the latter. >> >> >> I just added git+packed+ssh:// to be used for this purpose. >> > > Since git tends to use "pack" (e.g. git-fetch-pack) I'd suggest use > git+pack+ssh:// instead. It's shorter, too. > I thought some more about this, and realized that it really doesn't make sense for there to be another name for this. Simply put, git+ssh:// requires ssh access and git to be present on the other side, and within those parameters it should use whatever access method is most effective. Thus, having a separate URL type only makes sense if something is fundamentally and user-visibly different between the two. -hpa