From 87422439d100f020cadb63b5da8495e5fbfb8fa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:42:26 +0100
Subject: 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>

diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 13bab4e..5d814b5 100644
--- 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;
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