From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:03:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1004060000200.14365@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vetmrl1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I would think that INVOCATION section needs to specify how the helper is
> selected (e.g. taking "frotz" out of "frotz::<some info>", or using the
> configuration variable remote.origin.vcs), and where the one or two
> parameters given to the program come from, to help such a developer who
> wants to add his own remote helper.

I think where the helper gets selected should be described in the (more 
user-centric) documentation of how git uses external helpers; helper 
developers (who are writing their helper in the context of git) should 
generally be familiar with this from the user documentation. I'd like to 
keep this document as little specific to git being what calls the helper 
as possible.

	-Daniel
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