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

[Peter Strand]

David Roundy wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:02:17PM +0200, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>>I do not know how to carefully test my changes; I may have broken 
>>things.  It passes the test cases, but changing remote access methods 
>>should probably be tested in a setup involving different machines.  I 
>>also do not know how many people who have scp also have sftp working.  
>>There is no test for sftp; it would be possible to fall back to scp if 
>>sftp does not work.
> 
> 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.

Is it necessary to use sftp?
At least my version[1] of scp can copy several files at once:

  scp host:file1 host:file2 targethost:dir


Is that usable in this case and does all scp versions handle this?


/Peter

[1] OpenSSH 3.8.1p1