From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:15:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911041615o2a1afb6akdb120cdc94864e60@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd43xg7lf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Heya,
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 01:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> What do you mean by <alias> here? Is it the <alias> in
>
> [remote "alias"]
> url = hg::http://some.where/repo/sito/ry.hg
Yes, that one.
> IOW, can a user ever use the foreign interface directly from the command
> line, without ever defining such entries in .git/config, perhaps using
> "git remote"?
No, my primary use case for remote helpers is currently 'git clone
hg::https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/', and to have 'git fetch origin'
Just Work (tm) from that clone. My secondary use case though, is to
support 'git fetch hg:: https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/' just as well
and have 'git log FETCH_HEAD' Just Work (tm) too. In that light
.git/info/remote-<vcs>/ is probably a better idea, so that the helper
can use say '.git/info/remote-<vcs>/fetch/ for one-time fetches.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 19:48 [PATCH v2 00/13] Reroll of the remote-vcs-helper series Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnect Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] Allow fetch to modify refs Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] Allow specifying the remote helper in the url Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] Add support for "import" helper command Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] Write local refs written by the "import" helper command only once Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] Honour the refspec when updating refs after import Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 21:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-04 21:21 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 21:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-05 1:45 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-05 5:34 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-05 6:53 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-05 23:51 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-06 0:19 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-06 0:28 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-06 0:37 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-06 6:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 21:35 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-04 22:06 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 22:27 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-04 22:42 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 23:17 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-04 23:18 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 23:25 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-11-05 0:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-05 0:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-04 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] Add Python support library for remote helpers Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-05 7:55 ` Johan Herland
2009-11-06 0:14 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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