Heya, On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 19:41, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When the second implementation of http handler proves to be better than > 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. With your scheme, you probably could > change the name of the old "http" backend to "http-deprecated" and the 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? -- 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