Heya, On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 01:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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