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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation/remote-helpers: explain capabilities first
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:07:35 +0100
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Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
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Heya,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 18:45, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> 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
;).

> (by the way: would it
> make sense to export the GIT_DIR environment variable so a round trip
> 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.

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier