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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
pfrouleau · Nov 18, 2009 · 8742243 · 8742243
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diff --git 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;