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* Documentation/remote-helpers: Fix typos and improve languageRamkumar Ramachandra2010-04-181-28/+23
| | | | | | | | Fix some typos and errors in grammar and tense. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fixup: Second argument may be any arbitrary stringRamkumar Ramachandra2010-04-181-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | 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> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation sectionRamkumar Ramachandra2010-04-181-1/+34
| | | | | | | | | Add an 'Invocation' section to specify what the command line arguments mean. Also include a link to git-remote in the 'See Also' section. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite descriptionRamkumar Ramachandra2010-04-181-6/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Rewrite the description section to describe what exactly remote helpers are and the need for them. Also mention the curl family of remote helpers as an example. [jc: with readability fixes from Jonathan squashed in] Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fix typos in technical documentation.Ralf Wildenhues2010-01-311-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Support remote helpers implementing smart transportsIlari Liusvaara2009-12-281-1/+24
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Support mandatory capabilitiesIlari Liusvaara2009-12-091-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | Add support for marking capability as mandatory for hosting git version to understand. This is useful for helpers which require various types of assistance from main git binary. Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'master' into il/vcs-helperJunio C Hamano2009-12-061-4/+81
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master: (334 commits) bash: update 'git commit' completion Git 1.6.5.5 Fix diff -B/--dirstat miscounting of newly added contents reset: improve worktree safety valves Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam archive: clarify description of path parameter rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache Prepare for 1.6.5.5 gitweb: Describe (possible) gitweb.js minification in gitweb/README Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam Fix crasher on encountering SHA1-like non-note in notes tree t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-' t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1 Git 1.6.5.4 Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make Git 1.6.6-rc1 git-pull.sh: Fix call to git-merge for new command format Prepare for 1.6.5.4 merge: do not add standard message when message is given with -m option ... Conflicts: Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt Makefile builtin-ls-remote.c builtin-push.c transport-helper.c Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Move WebDAV HTTP push under remote-curlShawn O. Pearce2009-10-301-1/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The remote helper interface now supports the push capability, which can be used to ask the implementation to push one or more specs to the remote repository. For remote-curl we implement this by calling the existing WebDAV based git-http-push executable. Internally the helper interface uses the push_refs transport hook so that the complexity of the refspec parsing and matching can be reused between remote implementations. When possible however the helper protocol uses source ref name rather than the source SHA-1, thereby allowing the helper to access this name if it is useful. >From Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>: update http tests according to remote-curl capabilities o Pushing packed refs is now fixed. o The transport helper fails if refs are already up-to-date. Add a test for that. o The transport helper will notice if refs are already up-to-date. We therefore need to update server info in the unpacked-refs test. o The transport helper will purge deleted branches automatically. o Use a variable ($ORIG_HEAD) instead of full SHA-1 name. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> CC: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * remote-helpers: Support custom transport optionsShawn O. Pearce2009-10-301-0/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some transports, like the native pack transport implemented by fetch-pack, support useful features like depth or include tags. These should be exposed if the underlying helper knows how to use them. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * remote-helpers: Fetch more than one ref in a batchShawn O. Pearce2009-10-301-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some network protocols (e.g. native git://) are able to fetch more than one ref at a time and reduce the overall transfer cost by combining the requests into a single exchange. Instead of feeding each fetch request one at a time to the helper, feed all of them at once so the helper can decide whether or not it should batch them. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchangedDaniel Barkalow2009-11-171-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Helpers may use a line like "? name unchanged" to specify that there is nothing new at that name, without any git-specific code to determine the correct response. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Allow helper to map private ref names into normal namesDaniel Barkalow2009-11-171-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows a helper to say that, when it handles "import refs/heads/topic", the script it outputs will actually write to refs/svn/origin/branches/topic; therefore, transport-helper should read it from the latter location after git-fast-import completes. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Add support for "import" helper commandDaniel Barkalow2009-11-171-0/+10
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | This command, supported if the "import" capability is advertized, allows a helper to support fetching by outputting a git-fast-import stream. If both "fetch" and "import" are advertized, git itself will use "fetch" (although other users may use "import" in this case). Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add support for external programs for handling native fetchesDaniel Barkalow2009-08-051-0/+71
transport_get() can call transport_native_helper_init() to have list and fetch-ref operations handled by running a separate program as: git remote-<something> <remote> [<url>] This program then accepts, on its stdin, "list" and "fetch <hex> <name>" commands; the former prints out a list of available refs and either their hashes or what they are symrefs to, while the latter fetches them into the local object database and prints a newline when done. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>