Jeff King wrote: > One of the nice things about spinning remote-hg out of the core repo is > that it means we do not have to endorse a particular implementation, and > they can compete with each other on their merits.
True. [...] > It's a shame that both squat on the name "remote-hg", because it makes > it difficult to tell the two apart. But of course that is the only way > to make "git clone hg::..." work. Maybe we need a layer of indirection? > :) If the helpers are roughly interchangeable (that is, if you can switch between fetching using each one into the same on-disk git repository), then picking one to symlink as git-remote-hg in your $PATH should be enough. If they don't have that level of interoperability, then there's an argument to be made that the URLs shouldn't be the same. Unfortunately url.*.insteadof rules are resolved at fetch time instead of being resolved once and the result recorded in .git/config. So yes, it seems like a way to have abbreviations for URLs (e.g., hg:: meaning hg+mh:: or hg+fc::) that get resolved at clone time would be useful. It's a layer of indirection we don't provide. :/ Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
