On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure --- see remote-curl.c. > > There's also the "connect" capability. builtin/remote-ext.c and > builtin/remote-fd.c are examples using that one.
Thanks. >> Also, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a remote helper >> with push/fetch capabilities vs a remote helper with import/export >> capabilities? > > It mainly has to do with what it is convenient for your helper to > produce. If the helper would find it more convenient to write native > git objects (for example because the remote server speaks a > git-specific protocol, as in the case of remote-curl.c) then the > "fetch" capability will be more convenient. If the helper wants to > make a batch of new objects then a fast-import stream can be a > convenient way to do this and the "import" capability takes care of > running fast-import to take care of that. I'm trying to write a remote helper for hosting git remotes on Amazon S3. Do you have any intuition about which capabilities would work best for this case? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
