From 0c04094bc153ef1073524267b4eb49989c7b8ccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:17:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: describe short-hand used in fetch/pull. Describe short-hand for remote repository used in fetch/pull. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt (limited to 'Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7ae4ba0bd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +:: + The "remote" repository to pull from. One of the + following notations can be used to name the repository + to pull from: + + Rsync URL + rsync://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ + + HTTP(s) URL + http://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ + + GIT URL + git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ + remote.machine:/path/to/repo.git/ + + Local directory + /path/to/repo.git/ + + In addition to that, as a short-hand, the name of a file + in $GIT_DIR/branches directory can be specified; the + named file should contain a single line, a URL in one of + the above formats, optionally followed by a hash '#' and + the name of remote head. + +:: + The remote head name to fetch from. That is, make the + objects reachable from the commit recorded in + $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/ in the remote repository + available locally. + +tag :: + The remote head tag to fetch from. That is, make the + objects reachable from the commit recorded in + $GIT_DIR/refs/tags/ in the remote repository + available locally. + -- cgit v1.2.1