[OT] Re: Pushing a repository to Amazon S3?

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:31:04AM -0500, Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > If you had an SFTP library, it'd be practically trivial.
> > Unfortunately, it'd also probably be quite slow, requiring at least
> > O(files) round trips. By comparison, the Mercurial's SSH and FTP wire
> > protocols need one round trip for the actual data transfer.
> 
> Since you already have static-http, is there any objection to supporting
> SFTP too? Or is it just that nobody's done it yet?

The problem with SFTP is the library. But it's fairly uncommon to have
SFTP and not SSH. So it's of limited use. If someone can figure out
how to do this with little to no extra dependencies, I'd be
interested.

> (You meant "HTTP" and not "FTP", right?)

Right.

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