Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #05; Wed, 26)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

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There was a discussion that suggests that the use of colon ':' before vcs
helper name needs to be corrected.  Nothing happened since.

I believe the outcome of that discussion was:

 - We want to keep supporting using regular location URLs that are URLs of 
   git repositories (e.g., http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git), 
   and we probably want to do it with a helper which runs when 
   run_command() is given "remote-<scheme>". I think installing hardlinks 
   in EXECPATH ended up being the best implementation here.

That is different from what I recall.
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And from my point of view, this is what is blocking the series...

Just to make my position clear.

I brought up the issue of "should we leave it as a single colon that
confuses scp-like syntax and forces us to have three extra hardlinks?" in
the message I am following up to, not because I firmly am on that side of
the argument, but because I thought your version of "outcome" did not
match my recollection around that particular issue.  I am more or less
neutral myself.  Avoiding the confusion seems obviously the simple and
right thing to do, and I cannot think of obvious downsides of such a
change, but there probably are some downsides you have in mind, and I can
well imagine the issue may become "perfect is the enemy of good".

And I said "blocking the series", not in the sense that _I_ demand to
change it from colon to something else, but in the sense that I recall the
issue hasn't been settled in the discussion.