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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v9] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:27:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g2vf3271551004062257ycbda64d3z3d3004d802a03fc3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Add an 'Invocation' section to specify what the command line arguments
mean. Also include a link to git-remote in the 'See Also' section.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Changes: The second argument may be an arbitrary string as
 Jonathan pointed out.

 Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt |   34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
index 7a5569c..b0e7d54 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-remote-helpers - Helper programs to interact with
remote repositories

 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git remote-<transport>' <remote>
+'git remote-<transport>' <repository> [<URL>]

 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -38,6 +38,34 @@ transport protocols, such as 'git-remote-http',
'git-remote-https',
 'git-remote-ftp' and 'git-remote-ftps'. They implement the capabilities
 'fetch', 'option', and 'push'.

+INVOCATION
+----------
+
+Remote helper programs are invoked with one or (optionally) two
+arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in git;
+it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second
+argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form
+'<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible.
+
+When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where
+'<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it
+automatically invokes 'git remote-<transport>' with the full URL as
+the second argument. If such a URL is encountered directly on the
+command line, the first argument is the same as the second, and if it
+is encountered in a configured remote, the first argument is the name
+of that remote.
+
+A URL of the form '<transport>::<address>' explicitly instructs git to
+invoke 'git remote-<transport>' with '<address>' as the second
+argument. If such a URL is encountered directly on the command line,
+the first argument is '<address>', and if it is encountered in a
+configured remote, the first argument is the name of that remote.
+
+Additionally, when a configured remote has 'remote.<name>.vcs' set to
+'<transport>', git explicitly invokes 'git remote-<transport>' with
+'<name>' as the first argument. If set, the second argument is
+'remote.<name>.url'; otherwise, the second argument is omitted.
+
 COMMANDS
 --------

@@ -206,6 +234,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	must not rely on this option being set before
 	connect request occurs.

+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-remote[1]
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 Documentation by Daniel Barkalow and Ilari Liusvaara
-- 
1.7.0.3

             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07  5:57 Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-04-07  8:56 ` [PATCH v9] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-04-07 15:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-07 16:50   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-04-07 17:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-07 17:58       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-04-07 22:49     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-07 23:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-08  4:54         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-04-08  5:03           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-08  5:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 12:24             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-04-08 18:52         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-08 20:01           ` Re*: " Junio C Hamano
2010-04-08 20:21             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-08 20:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-09  2:06             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-04-10  4:59               ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 12:36             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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