Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation/remote-helpers: explain capabilities first

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 18, 2011, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20110318222107.GD23407@elie>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimfZM6muiU3vPMgx3NnRdb4H0t4E2DMXt1233LP@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 18:45, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> No documentation for "export" ... yet
>
> Which is for the better, since I think the current interface is
> broken. It'll be easier to justify changing it if it's not documented
> ;).

Thanks for explaining. FWIW I'd be interested in your thoughts on this sometime (not now necessarily, just some time before the svn push support project is on the front burner :)).

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>> (by the way: would it
>> make sense to export the GIT_DIR environment variable so a round trip
>> for the 'gitdir' capability would eventually be unnecessary?).
>
> Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
>
>> The current documentation left me lost, so I wrote this (which still
>> probably leaves one lost).  Thoughts?
>
> I think it makes sense.

Glad to hear it.  (The GIT_DIR idea is Tom's iirc.)