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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:13:49 +0530
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Hi,

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I would think that INVOCATION section needs to specify how the helper is
> selected (e.g. taking "frotz" out of "frotz::<some info>", or using the
> configuration variable remote.origin.vcs), and where the one or two
> parameters given to the program come from, to help such a developer who
> wants to add his own remote helper.

Junio: I think the first revision of my patch [1] is more along these
lines. I prepared this revision after Daniel Barkalow's comments [2]
and [3].
Daniel: Could you please comment on this?

-- Ram

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143434
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143438
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143483