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

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 18, 2011, 18:07 UTC
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Heya,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 18:45, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;).

> (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.
-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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