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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation for git-remote-helpers
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:56:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3271551003211026m376b86d6ga915f85a623eddfd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt |   22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
index 1b5f61a..54b36c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ git-remote-helpers(1)

 NAME
 ----
-git-remote-helpers - Helper programs for interoperation with remote git
+git-remote-helpers - Helper programs for interacting with main git
+programs without linking to them

 SYNOPSIS
 --------
@@ -13,10 +14,19 @@ DESCRIPTION
 -----------

 These programs are normally not used directly by end users, but are
-invoked by various git programs that interact with remote repositories
-when the repository they would operate on will be accessed using
-transport code not linked into the main git binary. Various particular
-helper programs will behave as documented here.
+invoked by various git programs that interact with remote
+repositories.  For a program to qualify as a remote helper, it must
+implement a subset of the capabilities documented here, and conform to
+the remote helper protocol. Remote helpers interact with the main git
+programs via text streams, and do not link to them.
+
+The curl helper is one such program. It is invoked via
+'git-remote-http', 'git-remote-https', 'git-remote-ftp', or
+'git-remote-ftps', and implments the capabilities 'fetch', 'option',
+and 'push'.
+
+Remote helpers are often useful when native interoperability with a
+foreign versioning system is desired.

 COMMANDS
 --------
@@ -122,7 +132,7 @@ CAPABILITIES
 	This helper supports the 'fetch' command.

 'option'::
-	This helper supports the option command.
+	This helper supports the 'option' command.

 'push'::
 	This helper supports the 'push' command.
-- 
1.7.0

             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-21 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-21 17:26 Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-03-21 18:21 ` [PATCH] Improve documentation for git-remote-helpers Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-03-21 23:29   ` Daniel Barkalow
2010-03-21 23:35     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-22  0:06       ` Daniel Barkalow
2010-03-22 15:40         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-22  7:28       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-03-22  3:04     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-03-22  3:38       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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