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[PATCH 0/6] Improve remote helper documentation

From
Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Date
Nov 27, 2012, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID
<1354038279-76475-1-git-send-email-max@quendi.de>

Various remote helper capabilities and commands were not documented, in particular 'export', or documented in a misleading way (e.g. 'for-push' was listed as a ref attribute understood by git, which is not the case). This patch series changes that, and also address some other things in the remote helper documentation that I found jarring when reading through it.

Note that the description of export and (im|ex)port-marks probably can be improved, and I hope that somebody who knows more about them than me and/or is better at writing documentation will do just that. But I felt it was better to provide something than to do nothing and only complain, as I did previously on this subject ;-).

Max Horn (6):
  Document invocation first, then input format
  Document missing remote helper capabilities
  Fix grammar
  Rearrange the description of remote helper capabilities
  Make clearer which commands must be supported for which capabilities
  Remove 'for-push' from ref list attributes list, link to subsections
 Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt | 241 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
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1.8.0.393.gcc9701d
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Message 1 of 16 in “Improve remote helper documentation”
  1. 0/6 Improve remote helper documentationMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  2. 1/6 Document invocation first, then input formatMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  3. 2/6 Document missing remote helper capabilitiesMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  4. 3/6 Fix grammarMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2012
  6. Max HornNov 27, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2012
  8. 4/6 Rearrange the description of remote helper capabilitiesMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  9. 5/6 Make clearer which commands must be supported for which capabilitiesMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  10. 6/6 Remove 'for-push' from ref list attributes list, link to subsectionsMax Horn, Nov 27, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  12. Sverre RabbelierDec 7, 2012
  13. Max HornDec 7, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2012
  15. Max HornDec 7, 2012
  16. Felipe ContrerasDec 12, 2012

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