Currently the remote helper infrastructure is only used by the curl
helper, which does not give a good impression of how remote helpers
can be used to interact with foreign repositories. Since implementing
such a helper is non-trivial it would be good to have at least one
easy-to-follow example demonstrating how to implement a helper that
interacts with a foreign vcs using fast-import/fast-export.
The testgit helper can be used to interact with remote git
repositories by prefixing the url with "testgit::".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch introduces parts of a Python package called
"git_remote_helpers" containing the building blocks for
remote helpers written in Python.
No actual remote helpers are part of this patch, this patch only
includes the common basics needed to start writing such helpers.
The patch includes the necessary Makefile additions to build and
install the git_remote_helpers Python package along with the rest of
Git.
This patch is based on Johan Herland's git_remote_cvs patch and
has been improved by the following contributions:
- David Aguilar: Lots of Python coding style fixes
- David Aguilar: DESTDIR support in Makefile
Cc: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
