{"thread":{"id":"23221","subject":"[PATCH 2/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Clarify \"curl\" family of remote helpers","startedAt":"2010-03-29T04:04:58Z","lastAt":"2010-03-29T07:14:43Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Ramkumar Ramachandra","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":2},"messages":[{"id":"138046","messageId":"f3271551003282104m1c273450pacc5d5c84125fa54@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"23221","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH 2/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Clarify \"curl\" family of remote helpers","fromName":"Ramkumar Ramachandra","fromEmail":"artagnon@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-03-29T04:04:58Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-29T04:04:58Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"r@artagnon.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37226?v=4"},"body":"Rewrite paragraph about \"curl\" family of remote helpers to clarify\ndifferent invocations of the same program.\n---\n Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt |    7 +++----\n 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt\nb/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt\nindex 58533e5..f1fc736 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt\n@@ -33,10 +33,9 @@ reachable via those refs to local, and update the\nlocal object\n store. Using the 'push' capability, they can transfer objects from\n local to remote, and update the corresponding refs as necessary.\n\n-Git comes with a \"curl\" family of remote helpers, specifically\n-'git-remote-http', 'git-remote-https', 'git-remote-ftp' and\n-'git-remote-ftps'. They implement the capabilities 'fetch', 'option',\n-and 'push'.\n+Git comes with a \"curl\" remote helper, which can be invoked as\n+'git-remote-http', 'git-remote-https', 'git-remote-ftp' or\n+'git-remote-ftps'. See INVOCATION below.\n\n INVOCATION\n ----------\n-- \n1.7.0.3\n"},{"id":"138059","messageId":"7vy6hb8vpv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"23221","inReplyTo":"f3271551003282104m1c273450pacc5d5c84125fa54@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Clarify \"curl\" family of remote helpers","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-03-29T06:53:32Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-29T06:53:32Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:\n\n> Rewrite paragraph about \"curl\" family of remote helpers to clarify\n> different invocations of the same program.\n\nI don't see anything wrong with \"curl family\".  Individually they may be\nhttp, https, etc. remote helper, but if you need a name to collectively\ncall them, you would want to say \"curl family of helpers\"; \"curl helpers\"\nsimply doesn't make sense.\n\nIf you want to just say \"we ship multiple\", we could also say \"a family of\nhelpers\" as well.  \"curl\"-ness is an implementation detail.\n"},{"id":"138060","messageId":"f3271551003290014t6fa8ce57s4ecda041c8a00a61@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"23221","inReplyTo":"7vy6hb8vpv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Clarify \"curl\" family of remote helpers","fromName":"Ramkumar Ramachandra","fromEmail":"artagnon@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-03-29T07:14:43Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-29T07:14:43Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"r@artagnon.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37226?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\n> I don't see anything wrong with \"curl family\".  Individually they may be\n> http, https, etc. remote helper, but if you need a name to collectively\n> call them, you would want to say \"curl family of helpers\"; \"curl helpers\"\n> simply doesn't make sense.\n\nOkay. Since this depends on the corresponding PATCH 1/2, which is\ncurrently under debate, I suggest that we drop this patch. Yes, the\nolder version of the paragraph slightly confusing as Tay pointed out,\nbut I don't know how to make it any clearer without getting into\ninvocation details.\n\n-- Ram\n"}]}