# [PATCH 4/5] Fixup: Second argument may be any arbitrary string

1 messages from 2010-04-18 to 2010-04-18. Participants: Ramkumar Ramachandra.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23509

## Ramkumar Ramachandra, 2010-04-18 00:56

Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Fixup: Second argument may be any arbitrary string
Message-ID: <1271552177-sup-2396@kytes>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1271552177-sup-2396%40kytes

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This is intended to be a fixup for commit ad466d1 in pu. As Jonathan
Neider pointed out, the second argument may be any arbitrary string,
and need not conform to any URL-like shape.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
index 25a0a16..1d0de7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -44,9 +44,8 @@ INVOCATION
 Remote helper programs are invoked with one or (optionally) two
 arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in git;
 it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second
-argument specifies a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>' or
-'<transport>::<address>', where '<address>' may be an arbitrary
-string.
+argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form
+'<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible.
 
 When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where
 '<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it
-- 
1.7.0.4

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