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Re: [PATCH 03/19] t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2011, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID
<20110608193630.GH27715@elie>
In-Reply-To
<20110608192850.GF27715@elie>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>> The problem is that we push all of the work of generating
>> the export stream onto fast-export,
>
> Here "we" means remote-testgit, not transport-helper, right?

Gah! Clearly I am not thinking straight and it means the transport-helper.

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> It's not just name mapping, no?  E.g., I could try
>
> 	git push testgit::/path/to/repo $(git rev-parse HEAD):new
>
> So I think the current implementation of "export" by testgit
> is just wrong. ;-)
So this refers to transport-helper, too, and...
[...]
> This seems like a reasonable solution.  One way would be to teach
> fast-export about refspecs

... the level of permissible hackishness goes down :), making teaching fast-export about refspecs the only obviously reasonable fix at first glance.

[...]
> Anyway, I don't think this should be in the commit message for the new
> test which doesn't even know about the remote helper protocol. :)
Sorry for the nonsense.  At least this last part still applies.
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Message 8 of 54 in “remote-helper improvements”
  1. 00/19 remote-helper improvementsSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  2. 01/19 transport-helper: fix minor leak in push_refs_with_exportSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  3. Jeff KingJun 8, 2011
  4. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  5. 02/19 t5800: factor out some ref testsSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  6. 03/19 t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpersSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  8. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  9. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  10. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  11. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  12. Jeff KingJun 10, 2011
  13. 04/19 teach remote-testgit to import non-HEAD refsSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  14. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  15. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  16. Jeff KingJun 8, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2011
  18. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  19. 05/19 transport-helper: don't feed bogus refs to export pushSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  20. 06/19 git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a non-local exportSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  21. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  22. Jeff KingJun 8, 2011
  23. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  24. Jonathan NiederJun 9, 2011
  25. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  26. Jonathan NiederJun 9, 2011
  27. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  28. Jeff KingJun 10, 2011
  29. 07/19 remote-curl: accept empty line as terminatorSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  30. 08/19 git-remote-testgit: only push for non-local repositoriesSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  31. 09/19 git-remote-testgit: fix error handlingSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  32. 10/19 fast-import: introduce 'done' commandSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  33. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  34. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  35. 11/19 fast-export: support done featureSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  36. 12/19 transport-helper: factor out push_update_refs_statusSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  37. 13/19 transport-helper: check status code of finish_commandSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  38. 14/19 transport-helper: use the new done feature where possibleSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  39. 15/19 transport-helper: update ref status after push with exportSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  40. Jonathan NiederJun 9, 2011
  41. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  42. 16/19 transport-helper: change import semanticsSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  43. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  44. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  45. 17/19 transport-helper: export is no longer always the last commandSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  46. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2011
  47. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  48. Jonathan NiederJun 9, 2011
  49. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2011
  50. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2011
  51. 18/19 transport-helper: Use capname for gitdir capability tooSverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011
  52. Jonathan NiederJun 8, 2011
  53. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  54. 19/19 transport-helper: implement marks location as capabilitySverre Rabbelier, Jun 8, 2011

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