From 87422439d100f020cadb63b5da8495e5fbfb8fa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:42:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allow specifying the remote helper in the url The common case for remote helpers will be to import some repository which can be specified by a single URL. Support this use case by allowing users to say: git clone hg::https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/ soc Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- transport.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c index 13bab4e2a..5d814b50e 100644 --- a/transport.c +++ b/transport.c @@ -818,6 +818,16 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url) url = remote->url[0]; ret->url = url; + /* maybe it is a foreign URL? */ + if (url) { + const char *p = url; + + while (isalnum(*p)) + p++; + if (!prefixcmp(p, "::")) + remote->foreign_vcs = xstrndup(url, p - url); + } + if (remote && remote->foreign_vcs) { transport_helper_init(ret, remote->foreign_vcs); return ret; -- 2.26.2