From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite description Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:34:48 +0530 Message-ID: References: <4BAFFFAB.4080808@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Gabriel Filion , Sverre Rabbelier , Michael J Gruber , Jonathan Nieder , Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List , Ilari Liusvaara To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 29 05:05:19 2010 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 1Nw5Hz-0000A9-5f for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:05:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755763Ab0C2DFL (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:05:11 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:63434 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754783Ab0C2DFK (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:05:10 -0400 Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so1209448gyg.19 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:05:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=4dnIqYFYEd9vz6D6ftX6hF6mcxSSEhlztyoripMObjQ=; b=ddzKHxP30XuRupqLmPuQlb/G8/OvwH5SZnhdUn7BMC5eavuZN3OLZA0wu+V6JWa3RM LF8Fr1OkpZavzL7vyqDAfTXyxizwX3XFzUdQhX+fccMfSNPUjsFjq+yjz4XqGl2zDf9x MlhtcEZVfuau0lg45SmV40i4K85SqPRa3gKfA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=qc7KqVmGrXY4dHgv0bWeRYyodK5JTbw76kUD88xnIEv1VASF9BgVj8OU5ZpQRl8TGr 5ELn9+ppQz6iFPIcsnM25ONDA7izxJlPvxaTPDdj4N97G7lwqtJTi8IfLQTeZ1ScAqq3 kCim8JACOh9CILJ4Q+tM58kvL75byKPwWzd4Q= Received: by 10.90.69.14 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:04:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BAFFFAB.4080808@gmail.com> Received: by 10.90.23.37 with SMTP id 37mr336628agw.75.1269831908198; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, > Oops, "needs" is repeated twice here... Oops. Sorry about the silly mistake. Junio: Could you please make this correction and apply the patch? I'm writing another patch documenting invocation which depends on this patch. --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Remote helper programs are normally not used directly by end users, but are invoked by git when it needs to interact with remote repositories. They implement a subset of the capabilities documented -here, and conform to the "remote helper protocol". When git needs +here, and conform to the "remote helper protocol". When git needs to interact with a repository served by a remote helper, it spawns the helper as an independent process and interacts with it over the specified protocol. Essentially, git sends commands to the helper @@ -38,6 +38,51 @@ Git comes with a "curl" family of remote helpers, specifically 'git-remote-ftps'. They implement the capabilities 'fetch', 'option', and 'push'. > http://lists.zerezo.com/git/msg712892.html > > Should we add this information on this man page? Definitely. Thanks for pointing this out- I've already started preparing a patch for this. -- Ram