From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Make the "traditionally-supported" URLs a special case Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:29:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 04 07:30:31 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 1MjRNW-0000R8-3K for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:30:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932611AbZIDF3n (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:29:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932510AbZIDF3n (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:29:43 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:17513 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932494AbZIDF3m (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:29:42 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so522346eya.19 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:29:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=k0YOEN9Y5yxHWEgTZc8z4gXaqDSMezFOiEd9f9Yqdk0=; b=lorTDAi7cyluedFoYS6KjuoMFBIvCIHu0M/+Am48p5ksCXC30xzN3xUayLSAcat2jf 86dXKDkvDuxUI56bNkaXTvmjud2dSMXS6FEm72cS5fiQWCJhLSqgVc1DhYK68t/UfD9U PfCgi9vfXLgYu0FTPfJTunOCTu33YGn8lqW8g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=A3R+jplejwJyFEtwy99/AdyYDfHLGwgAV9GOe+J+kJ/WvcdCDSvtyokGb0XBSuolNN jyccHAB4DLuHehd2hEn5o+9mCask6OVUPO9gfApgDT2x3EhmtWJUcRs9EfMWk2on9gJz gzp8M1knLksHaZojshuiRMESFzy6gJruWX2jE= Received: by 10.216.53.12 with SMTP id f12mr2077568wec.72.1252042183068; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:29:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 04:13, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > Instead of trying to make http://, https://, and ftp:// URLs > indicative of some sort of pattern of transport helper usage, make > them a special case which runs the "curl" helper, and leave the > mechanism by which arbitrary helpers will be chosen entirely to future > work. I'm sorry, I missed a few emails I think :(. Would you mind explaining why we chose to special-case the curl helpers instead of the symlink scheme? -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier