On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:15, Junio C Hamano<gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> If this is set, the url is not required, and the transport always uses
>> a helper named "git-remote-<value>".
>>
>> It is a separate configuration option in order to allow a sensible
>> configuration for foreign systems which either have no meaningful urls
>> for repositories or which require urls that do not specify the system
>> used by the repository at that location. However, this only affects
>> how the name of the helper is determined, not anything about the
>> interaction with the helper, and the contruction is such that, if the
>> foreign scm does happen to use a co-named url method, a url with that
>> method may be used directly.
>
> Personally, I do not like this.
>
> Why isn't it enough to define the canonical remote name git takes as
> "<name of the helper>:<whatever string the helper understands>"?
May I ask what will happen to these supported URL notations:
o [user@]host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/
o [user@]host.xz:~user/path/to/repo.git/
o [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git
this will bite you, if you have an ssh host alias named "<your
favorite helper name>".
Bert
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