From 8e29f6a07e321a24f1d4f579817f5a8a43cdac05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:56:22 +0200
Subject: Teach git-http-fetch the --stdin switch

Speeds up things quite a lot when fetching tags with Cogito.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Documentation')

diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
index bc1a132891..3d508094af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-http-fetch - downloads a remote git repository via HTTP
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] <commit> <url>
+'git-http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [--stdin] <commit> <url>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ commit-id::
         Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on
         the local end after the transfer is complete.
 
+--stdin::
+	Instead of a commit id on the commandline (which is not expected in this
+	case), 'git-http-fetch' expects lines on stdin in the format
+
+		<commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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