From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3 2/2] Doc URLs: relative paths imply the dot-respository
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:11:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379776269-4496-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379776269-4496-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
Documentation/urls.txt | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 9ccb246..3469e8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
--local option.
endif::git-clone[]
+Relative paths are relative to the current directory. Hence while the
+path:
+
+- '.'
+
+is the current directory, it is also 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-<transport>' remote helper, if one
exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax
--
1.8.1.msysgit.1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-21 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-21 15:11 [PATCH V3 0/2] Extend dot repository documentation Philip Oakley
2013-09-21 15:11 ` [PATCH V3 1/2] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery Philip Oakley
2013-10-15 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-16 6:53 ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-21 15:11 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
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