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Re: [PATCH] doc: documentation for http.uploadarchive config option

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Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2025, 17:54 UTC
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On 06.02.2025 15:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Piotr Szlazak via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com>
>>
>> In Git v2.44.0 support for 'git archive' over HTTP protocol
>> was added, but it was nowhere documented how it should be
>> enabled in git-http-backend.
> Good eyes
>
>> This commit adds needed information.
> It is more customary to say something like:
>
>      Add missing documentation.
>
> around here.
Commit message corrected in [PATCH v2].
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>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
>> index f37ddaded82..1dea4268520 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
>> @@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ http.receivepack::
>>   	disabled by setting this item to `false`, or enabled for all
>>   	users, including anonymous users, by setting it to `true`.
>>   
>> +http.uploadarchive::
>> +	This serves 'git archive' clients for remote archive over HTTP/HTTPS
>> +	protocols. It is disabled by default. It only works in protocol v2.
> The description looks good, from the correctness point-of-view,
> and its style is in line with other entries before it.
>
> We may want to later consider moving these four http.* configuration
> variables somehow to Documentation/config/. directory so that it is
> shared across git-http-backend.1 and git-config.1 pages, but that is
> something we should leave outside the current effort.
>
> Thanks.
Regards!
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  1. doc: documentation for http.uploadarchive config optionPiotr Szlazak via GitGitGadget, Feb 5, 2025
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2025
  3. Piotr SzlazakFeb 6, 2025
  4. doc: documentation for http.uploadarchive config optionPiotr Szlazak via GitGitGadget, Feb 6, 2025

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