Klein W wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It mainly has to do with what it is convenient for your helper to >> produce. If the helper would find it more convenient to write native >> git objects (for example because the remote server speaks a >> git-specific protocol, as in the case of remote-curl.c) then the >> "fetch" capability will be more convenient. If the helper wants to >> make a batch of new objects then a fast-import stream can be a >> convenient way to do this and the "import" capability takes care of >> running fast-import to take care of that. > > I'm trying to write a remote helper for hosting git remotes on Amazon > S3. Do you have any intuition about which capabilities would work > best for this case? fetch/push. I'd suggest looking at the "dumb" HTTP code (fetch_dumb, push_dav) in remote-curl.c to start. Thanks, Jonathan -- 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