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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new git-remote-hd helper
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:13:19 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Felipe Contreras
> > <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Right now I've just added an error when using remote repositories.
> >> But it seems there's no way around it; if we want to have support for
> >> remote repos, we need to make a local clone.
> >
> > My git-remote-hg does the local clone into .git/ using a hash of the
> > url (although you could just as well use urlencode, basically any way
> > to safely use a url as a directory name). Have a look if you want.
> 
> Can you point to the version you are talking about? I've been checking
> the remote-hg branch of fingolfin.
> 
> https://github.com/fingolfin/git/tree/remote-hg/

The code is in https://github.com/msysgit/git/ (Sverre does not have
enough time to work on remote-hg, and was okay with me hosting it in Git
for Windows, for all the reasons I mentioned earlier in this thread).

Hth,
Johannes