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From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2009, #02; Mon, 07)
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * db/vcs-helper (2009-09-03) 16 commits
>  - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
>  - Add support for "import" helper command
>  - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
>  - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
>  - Allow fetch to modify refs
>  - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
>  - Use a clearer style to issue commands to remote helpers
>  - Make the "traditionally-supported" URLs a special case
>   (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-07 at f3533ba)
>  + Makefile: install hardlinks for git-remote-<scheme> supported by libcurl if possible
>  + Makefile: do not link three copies of git-remote-* programs
>  + Makefile: git-http-fetch does not need expat
>   (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-06 at 15da79d)
>  + http-fetch: Fix Makefile dependancies
>  + Add transport native helper executables to .gitignore
>   (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-05 at 33d491e)
>  + git-http-fetch: not a builtin
>  + Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
>  + Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
>  (this branch is used by jh/cvs-helper.)
> 
> I'd really want to have this in 1.6.5 so that we can eject -lcurl from the
> main "git" binary.  The patches in 'pu' got some review comments, and I
> thought Daniel's responses were sensible.  Comments?

I'm pretty sure that there were no objections to 'Make the 
"traditonally-supported"...' patch, and directly after that is a 
reasonable stopping point (everything that used to work works the same, 
nothing new and user-visible is introduced, the implementation is 
reasonably straightforward and tidy, and the git binary doesn't 
link against -lcurl). I'd suggest putting everything up to that point into 
master and debating the rest of the series on its own merits (and likely 
deferring it to post-1.6.5, since it doesn't have an in-tree user to 
exercise it yet).

	-Daniel
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