From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Git remote helpers to implement smart transports. Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:58:39 -0800 Message-ID: <7vy6lldwyo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1259675838-14692-1-git-send-email-ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> <20091201171908.GA15436@Knoppix> <20091201193009.GM21299@spearce.org> <7vskbuwhmy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091202055632.GD31244@Knoppix> <7vy6llnar5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091202160446.GA32667@Knoppix> <7vk4x5fcbf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3a3tfbsx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sverre Rabbelier , Johannes Schindelin , Ilari Liusvaara , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 02 19:59:02 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 1NFuPk-0006b6-9X for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:59:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753640AbZLBS6q (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:58:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753453AbZLBS6q (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:58:46 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:53158 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752938AbZLBS6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:58:45 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2752E8493A; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:58:52 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=pzamhE9gcOF4C4xRVQi9+e4YUPE=; b=P9Hbub 4zrXpvZPO44iJsS2hIZnnGiTV80qW6TlSvt+D2bbzU3jouaaHFho+0k1t5AJFB6Z MCTmuprWBy9q/zg741XSxBqrVXePnjQ8bc9ozUY5z8/exc8qTgizoxTF2sCowJG7 GIoUyJ2hFUk5JjwXQoV1whnuHR/ufGPbCGBJk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=r/LcwJww+o9BjV+4/87/j0MULAK3O6Fv A7IQpSAStJ7Azd4R8k/JsXjiCyip7MQFkLNaAe0HwIICYh6Ul+GzOmTfXJQ7Ka6K FtZvFWmOfukR8zAwqVdDU9bM4YA7+gw04f7awXnesRwxpi0X+ONZvd6O8JqKm5uU /VYjR+5NwKg= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96CF84939; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:58:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA4FC84938; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:58:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7v3a3tfbsx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed\, 02 Dec 2009 10\:52\:46 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B8DFC716-DF74-11DE-B7C1-9F3FEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Sverre Rabbelier writes: > >> I don't see how what you are talking about is any different. With the >> mapping the executable of the alternative implementation still needs >> to have a different name, no? > > Sure, but please search for "second class citizen" in my message. Also "extra level of indication". I do not think "remote-curl" was the best name, and hindsight tells me that "remote-walker" might have been a better name (it tells us how it does it more clearly). And I do not at all mind making the current hard-coded mapping from http:// to remote-walker to an external table look-up, perhaps something that can be controlled by .git/config, with a built-in default that is hard-coded like the way we have now. After all my main objection is against closing the door to others by one particular implementation squating on "remote-http" name and refusing the use of that nice, authoritative-sounding name by others.