Klein W wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote:

>> It mainly has to do with what it is convenient for your helper to
>> produce.  If the helper would find it more convenient to write native
>> git objects (for example because the remote server speaks a
>> git-specific protocol, as in the case of remote-curl.c) then the
>> "fetch" capability will be more convenient.  If the helper wants to
>> make a batch of new objects then a fast-import stream can be a
>> convenient way to do this and the "import" capability takes care of
>> running fast-import to take care of that.
>
> I'm trying to write a remote helper for hosting git remotes on Amazon
> S3.  Do you have any intuition about which capabilities would work
> best for this case?

fetch/push.  I'd suggest looking at the "dumb" HTTP code (fetch_dumb,
push_dav) in remote-curl.c to start.

Thanks,
Jonathan
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