push over sftp

[Jan Hudec]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 19:06:36 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 2005/11/3, Joachim Nilsson <joachim.nilsson at vmlinux.org>:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 18:44 -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
> > > On 2 Nov 2005, at 15:57, Joachim Nilsson wrote:
> > > > I find absolute paths annoying, so I may look
> > > > into that if I get the time and noone else beats me to it. :)
> > > The last time I looked, the sftp url IETF drafts allowed only
> > > absolute paths, but if you all can come up with a reasonable
> > > convention for relative paths, I'm all for it.  Having only absolute
> > > paths bugs me too. :)
> >
> > I was thinking along the lines of scp/rsync paths.  The ':' (colon)
> > separator is very useful to separate a local host from a remote one. I
> > have seldom had the need to use ports other than the default, for that a
> > --port PORT switch seem more appropriate to me, even though rsync
> > supports the :PORT syntax.  I'll have a look at it later.
> 
> I agree. I use "scp file host:public_html/path" quite alot and it
> makes sense to public a repo with "bzr push host:public_html/repo". 
> This is also host darcs does it.  It uses url for http but just
> "host:path" for ssh paths.

Arch uses sftp://. Subversion and mercurial use URI-style as well, though
they both use execute their special server at the other end, so it's really
something different.

> To be fair that's all the darcs can handle really, http and ssh. But
> bzr will be able to handle alot more types of systems, smart remote
> servers, ftp servers, etc, so maybe it doesn't make sense to make sftp
> a special case?

I believe it does not deserve a special case, especially when it will be
stored somewhere most of the time anyway.

> It may be more "correct" to use "sftp://" but it's also more
> complicated (and lot's longer due to the absolut patch requirement) to
> write on a command line.

As to the later, there actually is a way around this, though it's not
standartized. In fact it has two variants:

Variant1:
    sftp://host/dir-in-home
    sftp://host//home/user/dir-in-home

Variant2:
    sftp://host/~/dir-in-home
    sftp://host/home/user/dir-in-home

Mercurial does use the first, though it uses ssh:// schema, since it executes
it's own server at the other end.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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