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Re: git-upload-archive help was not shown correctly

From
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Jan 14, 2012, 15:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20120114154633.GA3444@beez.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To
<1326548416.5992.1.camel@devendra-Linux>
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 07:10:16PM +0530, devendra wrote:
> Hi git folks,
> 
> the command git-upload-archive is not properly showing usage info when
> ran barely with out any args.

git-upload-package is not for human use. It's what gets run on the remote end when you run e.g. 'git archive --remote=origin HEAD'

> 
> it shows some kind of unwanted garbage instead of showing a nice help
> message.

It's trying to talk to git. What you see is the "Git Smart Protocol". What were you trying to do?

   cmn
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