From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> The common case for remote helpers will be to import some repository which can be specified by a single URL. Support this use case by allowing users to say: git clone hg::https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/ soc Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> --- Unchanged. transport.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c index 13bab4e..5d814b5 100644 --- a/transport.c +++ b/transport.c @@ -818,6 +818,16 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url) url = remote->url[0]; ret->url = url; + /* maybe it is a foreign URL? */ + if (url) { + const char *p = url; + + while (isalnum(*p)) + p++; + if (!prefixcmp(p, "::")) + remote->foreign_vcs = xstrndup(url, p - url); + } + if (remote && remote->foreign_vcs) { transport_helper_init(ret, remote->foreign_vcs); return ret; -- 1.6.5.2.158.g6dacb -- 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