From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:04:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite description Message-ID: 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