From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation/remote-helpers: explain capabilities first Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:21:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20110318222107.GD23407@elie> References: <20110318174504.GA22332@elie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ilari Liusvaara , Daniel Barkalow , Gabriel Filion , Tomas Carnecky , Ramkumar Ramachandra To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 18 23:21:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0i2u-0004ek-St for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:21:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932976Ab1CRWVU convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:21:20 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:51573 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932837Ab1CRWVT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:21:19 -0400 Received: by ywj3 with SMTP id 3so1774009ywj.19 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:21:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=scvc3ZgpWlw12xn2loPZXBm0X6V2qjBczDi2RdM3y5o=; b=U0sr96nh+UnUqVZ3NSpht5sUPEbDzIatC/wWpAKZ3A813c/jeStHaM6tLoDz9oKDu8 E5Jf3WsChu2zaiLTwfX0rYK7aQKL5eHDlKUAnN892lTBNUuW8QZk9hDA3j85ST2Qxfv/ LK8ef3sdnnZ6JwSz+qtV/Q8hKMx1rufz1OnnQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=wtLHT2FkSxYngN3EAUpAhBjLh4Ft1c09PBVW3xHqPrtfDReQakKuQkjCM6UOYZ/83s NyT9lQp8LCsLVpcrUpUs8DqSi69Y+kvipAcBjGtbKNPqXAN5RXqqZsEkea8Aq8qIm5pm dd2qAMds8yQyUKeaKHLZMmaJ4zd+HdtVw7+wE= Received: by 10.150.65.3 with SMTP id n3mr1790791yba.39.1300486878746; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elie (adsl-69-209-56-53.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [69.209.56.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u29sm1413507yhn.71.2011.03.18.15.21.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 18:45, Jonathan Nieder w= rote: >> No documentation for "export" ... yet > > Which is for the better, since I think the current interface is > broken. It'll be easier to justify changing it if it's not documented > ;). Thanks for explaining. FWIW I'd be interested in your thoughts on this sometime (not now necessarily, just some time before the svn push support project is on the front burner :)). >> (by the way: would it >> make sense to export the GIT_DIR environment variable so a round tri= p >> for the 'gitdir' capability would eventually be unnecessary?). > > Yes, that makes a lot of sense. > >> The current documentation left me lost, so I wrote this (which still >> probably leaves one lost). =C2=A0Thoughts? > > I think it makes sense. Glad to hear it. (The GIT_DIR idea is Tom's iirc.)