From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:43:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section
Message-ID: <r2gf3271551004051943u6111c956p24f4fd2897c08d0c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vetmrl1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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.

Junio: I think the first revision of my patch [1] is more along these
lines. I prepared this revision after Daniel Barkalow's comments [2]
and [3].
Daniel: Could you please comment on this?

-- Ram

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143434
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143438
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143483