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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 <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin 2009-11-18 02:42:26 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c578f51d52
commit 87422439d1

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@ -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;