Support scp-style urls for remotes (host:path).

3 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/GitRepo.hs b/GitRepo.hs
index 122b5cc60..2c2ad7b53 100644
--- a/GitRepo.hs
+++ b/GitRepo.hs
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ import Data.Char
 import Data.Word (Word8)
 import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String (encode)
 import Text.Printf
+import Data.List (isInfixOf)
 
 import Utility
 
@@ -314,8 +315,20 @@ configRemotes repo = map construct remotepairs
 		isremote k = startswith "remote." k && endswith ".url" k
 		remotename k = split "." k !! 1
 		construct (k,v) = (gen v) { remoteName = Just $ remotename k }
-		gen v	| isURI v = repoFromUrl v
+		gen v	| scpstyle v = repoFromUrl $ scptourl v
+			| isURI v = repoFromUrl v
 			| otherwise = repoFromPath v
+		-- git remotes can be written scp style -- [user@]host:dir
+		-- where dir is relative to the user's home directory.
+		scpstyle v = isInfixOf ":" v && (not $ isInfixOf "//" v)
+		scptourl v = "ssh://" ++ host ++ slash dir
+			where
+				bits = split ":" v
+				host = bits !! 0
+				dir = join ":" $ drop 1 bits
+				slash d	| d == "" = "/~/" ++ dir
+					| d !! 0 == '/' = dir
+					| otherwise = "/~/" ++ dir
 
 {- Parses git config --list output into a config map. -}
 configParse :: String -> Map.Map String String
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f8a3c3129..dba343def 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+git-annex (0.15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Support scp-style urls for remotes (host:path).
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:13:20 -0400
+
 git-annex (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Bugfix to git annex unused in a repository with nothing yet annexed.
diff --git a/doc/bugs/wishlist:_support_for_more_ssh_urls_.mdwn b/doc/bugs/wishlist:_support_for_more_ssh_urls_.mdwn
index 42107e51a..6156ade05 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/wishlist:_support_for_more_ssh_urls_.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/wishlist:_support_for_more_ssh_urls_.mdwn
@@ -9,3 +9,12 @@ Specifically, if I have ~/bar set up on host foo:
     #	url = ssh://foo/~/bar
     ## this one works
     	url = ssh://foo/home/tv/bar
+
+> scp-style is now supported.
+
+> `~` expansions (for the user's home, or other users)
+> are somewhat tricky to support as they require running
+> code on the remote to lookup homedirs. If git-annex grows a
+> `git annex shell` that is run on the remote side
+> (something I am considering for other reasons), it
+> could handle the expansions there. --[[Joey]]