On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Having said that, I have a feeling that many people do not build > > any of the commit walkers, and especially the http walker, > > because they have no need for dumb protocols, and libcurl-dev is > > just another piece of dependency they do not have to have. > > Interestingly, I just was involved in a discussion on IRC, where somebody > (out of quotat concerns) wants to use sftp to push to a bare repository, > which is served via HTTP. > > Unfortunately, it seems that all persons wanting to have some support for > that, expect others to do the work for them. > > However, there is a miniscule non-zero chance that eventually somebody > might want to realise an sftp push protocol (where you basically need the > ls-remote part of the fetcher, too, to determine what to pack and send). > And to complete a dumb sftp fetch protocol, you'd need a commit walker, > so I'd like to have at least a minimal interface for commit walkers > waiting for that saviour. Okay, I think I'll go for ditching ssh-fetch/-push, making the commit-walker code more modular, and possibly moving more of the smarts of http-fetch into the common code so that local-fetch is a better test for it and sftp fetch would be possible. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - 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
