Hi, On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > transport_get() can call transport_shim_init() to have list and > fetch-ref operations handled by running a separate program as: > > git shim-<something> <remote> [<url>] > > This program then accepts, on its stdin, "list" and "fetch <hex> > <name>" commands; the former prints out a list of available refs and > either their hashes or what they are symreefs to, while the latter > fetches them into the local object database and prints a newline when done. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > This is similar to, but different from, my git-vcs-* stuff; this one > expects the helper to be able to look up sha1s for refs efficiently, and > to be able to fetch objects directly into the local object database > without fast-import. On the otherhand, it should be sufficiently general > to allow arbitrary methods for moving the data around. I wonder if this cannot be integrated into the git-vcs stuff; after all, they do pretty much the same things, except that the vcs helpers are pretty dumb, and the shim helpers are not as dumb. I could imagine that the name of the helper could reveal its capability to act as a shim helper: git-vcs-shim-http Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html