Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2010, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <f3271551003301315i4bee002dm572e179819dbb1cd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100330201007.GA26121@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> A hypothetical ‘git remote-svn’ would not need to examine its first
> argument at all, unless it wants to use it to name a store of additional
> per-remote data.  From its perspective, the second argument is not to
> disambiguate.  Instead, the second argument is all that matters.

Right. I'll try to reword this last part.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:

> 'tls://srp-Ilari@[1067a6e3af81b5ea76d615280eee2bc3dd2e8079@tcp/ipv6~fe80::20e:a6ff:fe6f:2288%2]:7684/gitolite-admin'

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> What I meant by "arbitrary string" is that it doesn’t have to have the
> form schema://path, it’s not restricted to a particular character set,
> it doesn’t have to avoid conflicting with meaningful URLs defined by
> other helpers, and so on.  So it’s a resource locator but not very
> uniform.

Well, we're trying to document all these "urls" in urls.txt [1]. I should perhaps use the term "URL recognized by Git" and include a link to the urls page in the documentation?

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143499