sftp oddities

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 14:08:52 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 2005/12/20, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca>:
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> > Jeff Rose wrote:
> > | 1. Why does pushing and branching with sftp use an odd url that doesn't
> > | correspond with what people already know about sftp?
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> > I think what you're talking about here is scp, which is a different
> > protocol.  The scp commandline tool is modeled after rcp, and its
> > arguments aren't URLs.  AIUI, rcp predates URLs by many years.
> 
> Acctually, sftp also uses scp/rcp syntax
> 
>      sftp [[user@]host[:file [file]]]
>      sftp [[user@]host[:dir[/]]]
> 
> I do think he has a point and I would like to use bzr push
> erik at bagfors.nu:public_html like I can in darcs and hg.  But it begs
> the question, "is that sftp, rcp, scp, rsync, something else??".  The
> reason that darcs and hg can do it, is that they don't support as many

hg can do it? It certainly does *NOT* document that.

> transports as bzr does.

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