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Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite description

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 29, 2010, 03:04 UTC
Message-ID
<f3271551003282004h39ae8d95ma2bf6517e7d77d7b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<4BAFFFAB.4080808@gmail.com>
Hi,
> Oops, "needs" is repeated twice here...
Oops. Sorry about the silly mistake.
Junio: Could you please make this correction and apply the patch? I'm
writing another patch documenting invocation which depends on this
patch.
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Remote helper programs are normally not used directly by end users,
 but are invoked by git when it needs to interact with remote
 repositories. They implement a subset of the capabilities documented
-here, and conform to the "remote helper protocol". When git needs
+here, and conform to the "remote helper protocol". When git
 needs to interact with a repository served by a remote helper, it
 spawns the helper as an independent process and interacts with it over
 the specified protocol. Essentially, git sends commands to the helper
@@ -38,6 +38,51 @@ Git comes with a "curl" family of remote helpers,
specifically
 'git-remote-ftps'. They implement the capabilities 'fetch', 'option',
 and 'push'.

> http://lists.zerezo.com/git/msg712892.html
>
> Should we add this information on this man page?

Definitely. Thanks for pointing this out- I've already started
preparing a patch for this.

-- Ram
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  1. 1/2 Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite descriptionRamkumar Ramachandra, Mar 28, 2010
  2. Gabriel FilionMar 29, 2010
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 29, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierMar 29, 2010
  5. Daniel BarkalowMar 29, 2010
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 29, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederMar 29, 2010
  8. Daniel BarkalowMar 29, 2010
  9. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 30, 2010
  10. Tay Ray ChuanMar 29, 2010
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 29, 2010
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 5, 2010
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2010
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 6, 2010

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