From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Oakley Subject: [PATCH V2 1/3] Doc URLs: relative paths imply the dot-respository Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:23:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1379107397-964-2-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> References: <1368964449-2724-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> <1379107397-964-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Felipe Contreras To: GitList , Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 13 23:23:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKapw-0003am-Nq for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:23:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754860Ab3IMVXM (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:23:12 -0400 Received: from out1.ip02ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.238]:47794 "EHLO out1.ip02ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753932Ab3IMVXK (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:23:10 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnQHABmBM1JOl3GZ/2dsb2JhbABbgweuBpN/gRwXdIImAQVWIxAISTkeBgESiAe5MI9xB4QeA6lugyU7 X-IPAS-Result: AnQHABmBM1JOl3GZ/2dsb2JhbABbgweuBpN/gRwXdIImAQVWIxAISTkeBgESiAe5MI9xB4QeA6lugyU7 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,900,1371078000"; d="scan'208";a="441146855" Received: from host-78-151-113-153.as13285.net (HELO localhost) ([78.151.113.153]) by out1.ip02ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 13 Sep 2013 22:23:09 +0100 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.msysgit.1 In-Reply-To: <1379107397-964-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- Documentation/urls.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 9ccb246..5350a63 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies --local option. endif::git-clone[] +Relative paths are relative to the `$GIT_DIR`, thus the path: + +- '.' + +is the current repository and acts as if it were a repository +named `'.'`. + When Git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it attempts to use the 'remote-' remote helper, if one exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax -- 1.8.1.msysgit.1