On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 07:17:23AM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > I thought about creating a simple darcs-server. It would be an
> > additional (perhaps hidden) darcs command, that would make darcs
> > respond to requests on stdin/stdout. One kind of request would
> > be to get a list of files, the other would be to invoke a darcs
> > command.
> 
> One major downside of this approach is that it requires darcs on the
> other side.

If there was no darcs on the other side, we could fall back to normal
darcs-less operation. I think it could be done without making a mess
of it.

> It'd be nice to not require darcs for ssh pull, send and get.

Sure, but on the other hand why not use darcs on the other side
if it is available?

> > The other approach, which could remove this problem, is to write a shell
> > script that would be sent to the other side of ssh connection and
> > executed there. This is an idea taken from shfs.
> 
> This is scary in terms of portability--keep in mind that it may be Windows
> on the other side of the ssh connection.

Good point.

Best regards
Tomasz

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