Klein W <[email protected]> writes: > Is there any example of a remote helper [0] with push and fetch capabilities? > > The git-remote-testgit.sh example [1] only has import/export capabilities. > > Also, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a remote helper > with push/fetch capabilities vs a remote helper with import/export > capabilities?
A helper with push/fetch capabilities is responsible for (and more importantly, "in control of") packdata creation, while helpers that use import/export interface rely on fast-import, which is quite dumb when it comes to storage efficiency of the resulting repository. The former might be more preferrable from the efficiency point of view. BUT. Unless your foreign SCM is Git itself, however, it is not practical to write your own pack data generator correctly and efficiently to support push/fetch capabilities anyway, so the choice is often made not because of "advantages vs disadvantages" but because of what you can write in practice. -- 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
