Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some very preliminary remote git access patches

2015-02-09 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 07:13:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: So this isn't actually where I wanted to be, but I had a few false starts with this, and spent too much time trying to figure out the oddities of libgit2 before I just took a different approach. It's a shame that they kept

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some very preliminary remote git access patches

2015-02-09 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
However, it's all *impractical* right now due to the lack of ssh authentication and any GUI for progress (so that you could cancel the update etc with slow networks). Mock something to me and I'll create it in no time. ___ subsurface mailing list

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some very preliminary remote git access patches

2015-02-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Feb 9, 2015 8:16 AM, Dirk Hohndel d...@hohndel.org wrote: I originally wanted to create a local cache of a remote git repository - multiple branches and all. But the remote tracking branch behavior of libgit2 was too confusing, and I eventually realized that I also want to have a

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some very preliminary remote git access patches

2015-02-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Tomaz Canabrava tcanabr...@kde.org wrote: Mock something to me and I'll create it in no time. Here's something that does progress reporting and credentials, but does it only to stdin/out/err, so it would need some graphical thing (with a cancel thing too that

[PATCH 0/5] Some very preliminary remote git access patches

2015-02-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
So this isn't actually where I wanted to be, but I had a few false starts with this, and spent too much time trying to figure out the oddities of libgit2 before I just took a different approach. I originally wanted to create a local cache of a remote git repository - multiple branches and