On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:14:40AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Ilari, > > Ilari Liusvaara wrote: > > > This remote helper reflects raw smart remote transport stream back to the > > calling program. This is useful for example if some UI wants to handle > > ssh itself and not use hacks via GIT_SSH. > > Do you ever use this directly, or is it a "because we can" sort of thing? > Whenever I try to come up with an example, ext:: seems to be easier. I don't have any UIs that would want to override SSH, git:// or something like that, so no. ext:: sees lots of internal use. > > +<anything> can be any string. It is ignored. It is meant for provoding > > +information to user in form of "URL". > > Is this meant for future expansion? Why not just use a comment in > .git/config? These URLs are not meant to go into .git/config. > > +EXAMPLES: > > +--------- > > +"fd::17":: > > + Connect using socket in file descriptor #17. > > Maybe with more context? > > socat ... "git push fd::3 HEAD" ... More like something execing git, having open connection to some git repo. If you want stuff like that (using socat to establish connections), use ext:: -Ilari -- 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