Re: [PATCH 0/6] Improve remote helper documentation

> Max Horn <max@quendi.de> writes:
> 
>> 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 ;-).
> 
> A second ping to people who have touched transport-helper.c,
> remote-testsvn.c, git-remote-testgit, and contrib/remote-helpers/ in
> the past 18 months for comments.  I've re-read the documentation
> updates myself and didn't find anything majorly objectionable.
> 
> Except for a minor nit in 6/6; I think "defined options" should be
> "defined attributes".
> 
>    --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
>    +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
>    @@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ Support for this command is mandatory.
>            the name; unrecognized attributes are ignored. The list ends
>            with a blank line.
>     +
>    +See REF LIST ATTRIBUTES for a list of currently defined options.
>    ++