Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 05:22:57PM +0800, Sky Patrick wrote: > > > > If i want to write a new protocol for file transfer and would like to > > to integrate it with git. Is it possible and easy to integrate it ? > > Currently, i know that jgit may achieve it, but it is a Java > > implementation and may not work with git command line program that > > written in C. Writing a dumb protocol support isn't difficult in JGit due to the abstractions in place. Its a little harder in C Git, unless Mike (or someone else) can abstract out the cURL library usage and make it more flexible. Though these days cURL supports just about any file transfer protocol known. > First, it would depend if you need this new protocol to be a dumb > protocol (like rsync and http) or "native" (git or ssh). Writing a smart protocol is a PITA. Look at the smart HTTP effort I am trying to do. OK, I'm not spending a whole lot of time on it, but its a damn difficult thing to do well, and to keep simple enough that it can be described and reimplemented. Otherwise we have another that-thing-before-Git on our hands. > I've been meaning to refactor the dumb protocol "stack" for a while, but > haven't gone much further than ideas in my mind (i.e. no code). I also > have some start of http code recfactoring, that is waiting for this dumb > protocol rework to be completed. Yea. One reason why I'm doing the smart HTTP effort prototype in JGit is because the C code structure makes this harder to implement without first going through a number of refactorings. Though for the smart HTTP stuff I really need to refactor fetch-pack/send-pack and upload-pack/receive-pack, not the dumb walkers. -- Shawn. -- 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
