Re: done feature in remote-helpers (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a remote helper to interact with mediawiki (fetch & push))

[Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>]

Heya,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 15:12, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> You can have multiple imports in the current system, you just need to
>> remember to add the trailing newline.
>>
>> import refs/heads/master
>> \n
>> import refs/heads/next
>> \n
>
> Then I'm lost. Isn't \n supposed to mean that the list of commands is
> over, and that the remote-helper should terminate?

No, a list of 'import' statements has to be followed by a \n, similar
to the push command. You can have multiple 'blocks' of import/push
commands, but each block has to be followed by a newline. Again, you
should read:

import A
import B
\n
import C
import D
\n

as:
import
A
B
\n
import
C
D
\n

> Also, who is "you" in your sentence? It can't be the remote helper
> (which reads this sequence), so it has to be Git's transport-helper.

Correct.

> Are you saying that the transport-helper should be modified to add \n
> after sending an import command?

As said above, it already does that. Each group of import statements
is terminated with a \n.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier