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[RFCv2 08/12] Preliminary clarifications to git-vcs documentation

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Jul 31, 2009, 10:00 UTC
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Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
---
 Documentation/git-vcs.txt |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-vcs.txt b/Documentation/git-vcs.txt
index 402c927..febe415 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-vcs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-vcs.txt
@@ -22,13 +22,15 @@ capabilities (limited both by the particular helper and by the
 capabilities of the system they connect to), and they report what
 capabilities they support.
 
-These programs can store refs in refs/<system>/*, and arbitrary
-information in info/<system>.
+These programs can store refs in refs/<system>/*, note refs in
+refs/notes/<system>/*, and arbitrary information in info/<system>/*.
 
 COMMANDS
 --------
 
 Commands are given by the caller on the helper's standard input, one per line.
+The output of each command must be produced on the helper's standard output.
+The helper's standard error stream can be used for status/progress messages.
 
 'capabilities'::
 	Outputs a single line with a list of feature names separated
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ Commands are given by the caller on the helper's standard input, one per line.
 	operations, such as importing the content, to see whether it
 	matches.) Other information, not yet supported, may be output
 	as well, separated by single spaces.
+	The output list shall be terminated with a blank line.
 
 'import' ref::
 	Imports the given ref by outputting it in git-fast-import

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Message 9 of 12 in “[RFCv2 00/12] Foreign VCS helper program for CVS repositories”
  1. Johan HerlandJul 31, 2009
  2. 01/12 Allow late reporting of fetched hashesJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  3. 02/12 Document details of transport function APIsJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  4. 03/12 Add option for using a foreign VCSJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  5. 04/12 Add specification of git-vcs-* helper programsJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  6. 05/12 Use a function to determine whether a remote is validJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  7. 06/12 Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urlsJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  8. 07/12 Add a transport implementation using git-vcs-* helpersJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  9. 08/12 Preliminary clarifications to git-vcs documentationJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  10. 09/12 Teach foreign transport code to perform the "capabilities" commandJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  11. 10/12 Introduce a 'marks <filename>' feature to the foreign transport codeJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009
  12. 12/12 Add simple test cases of git-vcs-cvs functionalityJohan Herland, Jul 31, 2009

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