Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] git-remote-fd

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:14:40AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Hi Ilari,

Ilari Liusvaara wrote:

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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.

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+<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.
 

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+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