[darcs-devel] Faster remote access with sftp instead of scp

[David Brown]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 08:56:24AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:

> I also have no idea what fraction of scp users have sftp also working.  If
> it is small, we'd definitely like to have a fallback.

Probably nearly 100%.  I haven't looked at the patch to see if it is
using the sftp protocol directly, or using the sftp command.  ssh1 and
ssh2 have different sftp protocols.

You generally have to go out of your way to install ssh and not install
sftp.

Dave