From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:43:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/20] transport-helper: implement marks location as capability
Message-ID: <CAGdFq_ijB6fNr7favL+J7WeHOvY+MyqgZu-vwfPY3NRZg5mPag@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110620012937.GB25836@elie>

Heya,

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 03:29, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do we use a "gitdir" capability for this at all, instead of
> exporting the GIT_DIR environment variable as Tomas has suggested?
> (Not about this patch, but a separate patch explaining that in the
> documentation would be nice.)

Mainly because I didn't take the time to implement that, will do.

> How does this interact with fast-import's --relative-marks feature
> (if at all)?

They're a supplement to it, the exporter uses all three features (see
git_remote_helpers/git/exporter.py).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier