From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Git remote helpers to implement smart transports. Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:50:54 +0100 Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Ilari Liusvaara , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 02 19:51:22 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 1NFuIL-0002qN-M3 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:51:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755187AbZLBSvJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:51:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755152AbZLBSvI (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:51:08 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f197.google.com ([209.85.212.197]:56685 "EHLO mail-vw0-f197.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753016AbZLBSvI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:51:08 -0500 Received: by vws35 with SMTP id 35so206762vws.4 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:51:14 -0800 (PST) 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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GZU1NO0GIfn9uNoqGDGV0xKiQja6Ckl+QhCB4Njobr0=; b=h+EaaU+w6veeGMd7Q9qvmF1UvrbKNjNdphsAv8qdtLEJyoYUAYn2QD/jtLFPqD2oHG +Ob1mKOwwppcVeDnb51XXmfBjqzrUqFIkO50l1IXskp2d70ijKBZAz0uIRRNk0YpCPYJ Ckd3rqHCX3IKHJf63LdILzqEbVPbJOLMmXfZ4= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=XXb+Kwl8gHfq1ssj1Afq1t6vsp7wWP+2sg+vGkLN90GYm0f3ViUrgbhqxAjwecExey 0SgD4/FB0a5dJrMXERRO+J6vvXZZJIZEx2scifUY1fLIXgo+AdT5atzr4GfDZvsQD4Yo 4DPfW5jjyeQrQZaFDpKchXQcgEgpdm0I2TwNM= Received: by 10.220.123.16 with SMTP id n16mr597986vcr.51.1259779874105; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:51:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7vk4x5fcbf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 19:41, Junio C Hamano wrote: > When the second implementation of http handler proves to be better th= an > the current one, we can flip the mapping, and anybody who were using > "http://" to access some repository will automatically updated to use= the > new backend instead of the old one. =A0With your scheme, you probably= could > change the name of the old "http" backend to "http-deprecated" and th= e new > one from "second-class-citizen-http" to "http" to achieve a similar > effect, but I do not think it is as nice as having one extra level of > indirection. 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? --=20 Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier