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Junio C Hamano
12210859da Merge branch 'bc/sha-256-part-2'
SHA-256 migration work continues.

* bc/sha-256-part-2: (44 commits)
  remote-testgit: adapt for object-format
  bundle: detect hash algorithm when reading refs
  t5300: pass --object-format to git index-pack
  t5704: send object-format capability with SHA-256
  t5703: use object-format serve option
  t5702: offer an object-format capability in the test
  t/helper: initialize the repository for test-sha1-array
  remote-curl: avoid truncating refs with ls-remote
  t1050: pass algorithm to index-pack when outside repo
  builtin/index-pack: add option to specify hash algorithm
  remote-curl: detect algorithm for dumb HTTP by size
  builtin/ls-remote: initialize repository based on fetch
  t5500: make hash independent
  serve: advertise object-format capability for protocol v2
  connect: parse v2 refs with correct hash algorithm
  connect: pass full packet reader when parsing v2 refs
  Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2
  t1302: expect repo format version 1 for SHA-256
  builtin/show-index: provide options to determine hash algo
  t5302: modernize test formatting
  ...
2020-07-06 22:09:13 -07:00
brian m. carlson
452e35684f docs: update remote helper docs for object-format extensions
Update the remote helper docs to document the object-format extensions
we will implement in remote-curl and the transport helper code shortly.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-27 10:07:06 -07:00
Denton Liu
b0df0c16ea stateless-connect: send response end packet
Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is
complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on
more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the
transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the
transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes.

This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate:

	$ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...

whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected:

	$ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...
	fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a
response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server
when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each
response ends as described.

A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to
differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's
control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server
cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from
being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a
response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen.

Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-24 16:26:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d45d771978 Merge branch 'bc/smart-http-atomic-push'
The atomic push over smart HTTP transport did not work, which has
been corrected.

* bc/smart-http-atomic-push:
  remote-curl: pass on atomic capability to remote side
2019-10-23 14:43:11 +09:00
brian m. carlson
6f1194246a remote-curl: pass on atomic capability to remote side
When pushing more than one reference with the --atomic option, the
server is supposed to perform a single atomic transaction to update the
references, leaving them either all to succeed or all to fail.  This
works fine when pushing locally or over SSH, but when pushing over HTTP,
we fail to pass the atomic capability to the remote side.  In fact, we
have not reported this capability to any remote helpers during the life
of the feature.

Now normally, things happen to work nevertheless, since we actually
check for most types of failures, such as non-fast-forward updates, on
the client side, and just abort the entire attempt.  However, if the
server side reports a problem, such as the inability to lock a ref, the
transaction isn't atomic, because we haven't passed the appropriate
capability over and the remote side has no way of knowing that we wanted
atomic behavior.

Fix this by passing the option from the transport code through to remote
helpers, and from the HTTP remote helper down to send-pack.  With this
change, we can detect if the server side rejects the push and report
back appropriately.  Note the difference in the messages: the remote
side reports "atomic transaction failed", while our own checking rejects
pushes with the message "atomic push failed".

Document the atomic option in the remote helper documentation, so other
implementers can implement it if they like.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-17 16:08:22 +09:00
David Turner
0a8bc7068f clarify documentation for remote helpers
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-30 14:39:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
27ff787809 Merge branch 'js/check-docs-exe'
Dev support update.

* js/check-docs-exe:
  check-docs: fix for setups where executables have an extension
  check-docs: do not expect guide pages to correspond to commands
  check-docs: really look at the documented commands again
  docs: do not document the `git remote-testgit` command
  docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
2019-04-22 11:14:46 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
c3eaa0cb9d docs: do not document the git remote-testgit command
Since 7ded055401 (build: do not install git-remote-testgit, 2013-06-07),
we do not install it. Therefore it makes no sense to document it,
either.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 14:00:54 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
439cc74632 docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
It is currently in section 1, but that section is intended for
"Executable programs or shell commands".

A more appropriate place is section 7: "Miscellaneous (including macro
packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)".

This issue should have been detected earlier by `make check-docs`, but
was missed due to a bug in that Makefile target (that we are about to
fix).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 14:00:53 +09:00
Martin Ågren
8d75a1d183 Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
These tabs happen to appear in columns where they don't stand out too
much, so the diff here is non-obvious. Some of these are rendered
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor (although the difference might
be invisible!), which is how I found a few of them. The remainder were
found using `git grep "[a-zA-Z.,)]$TAB[a-zA-Z]"`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 09:25:32 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
9bfa0f9be3 Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v2'
The beginning of the next-gen transfer protocol.

* bw/protocol-v2: (35 commits)
  remote-curl: don't request v2 when pushing
  remote-curl: implement stateless-connect command
  http: eliminate "# service" line when using protocol v2
  http: don't always add Git-Protocol header
  http: allow providing extra headers for http requests
  remote-curl: store the protocol version the server responded with
  remote-curl: create copy of the service name
  pkt-line: add packet_buf_write_len function
  transport-helper: introduce stateless-connect
  transport-helper: refactor process_connect_service
  transport-helper: remove name parameter
  connect: don't request v2 when pushing
  connect: refactor git_connect to only get the protocol version once
  fetch-pack: support shallow requests
  fetch-pack: perform a fetch using v2
  upload-pack: introduce fetch server command
  push: pass ref prefixes when pushing
  fetch: pass ref prefixes when fetching
  ls-remote: pass ref prefixes when requesting a remote's refs
  transport: convert transport_get_remote_refs to take a list of ref prefixes
  ...
2018-05-08 15:59:16 +09:00
Brandon Williams
edc9caf7e2 transport-helper: introduce stateless-connect
Introduce the transport-helper capability 'stateless-connect'.  This
capability indicates that the transport-helper can be requested to run
the 'stateless-connect' command which should attempt to make a
stateless connection with a remote end.  Once established, the
connection can be used by the git client to communicate with
the remote end natively in a stateless-rpc manner as supported by
protocol v2.  This means that the client must send everything the server
needs in a single request as the client must not assume any
state-storing on the part of the server or transport.

If a stateless connection cannot be established then the remote-helper
will respond in the same manner as the 'connect' command indicating that
the client should fallback to using the dumb remote-helper commands.

A future patch will implement the 'stateless-connect' capability in our
http remote-helper (remote-curl) so that protocol v2 can be used using
the http transport.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-15 12:01:09 -07:00
Jonathan Tan
88e2f9ed8e introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object
Introduce fetch-object, providing the ability to fetch one object from a
promisor remote.

This uses fetch-pack. To do this, the transport mechanism has been
updated with 2 flags, "from-promisor" to indicate that the resulting
pack comes from a promisor remote (and thus should be annotated as such
by index-pack), and "no-dependents" to indicate that only the objects
themselves need to be fetched (but fetching additional objects is
nevertheless safe).

Whenever "no-dependents" is used, fetch-pack will refrain from using any
object flags, because it is most likely invoked as part of a dynamic
object fetch by another Git command (which may itself use object flags).
An alternative to this is to leave fetch-pack alone, and instead update
the allocation of flags so that fetch-pack's flags never overlap with
any others, but this will end up shrinking the number of flags available
to nearly every other Git command (that is, every Git command that
accesses objects), so the approach in this commit was used instead.

This will be tested in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-05 09:46:05 -08:00
René Genz
5621760f59 fix minor typos
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: René Genz <liebundartig@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-01 11:01:52 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8c00b7e583 Merge branch 'jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix'
Doc markup fix.

* jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix:
  docs/gitremote-helpers: fix unbalanced quotes
2017-02-15 14:56:40 -08:00
Jeff King
2aaf37b62c docs/gitremote-helpers: fix unbalanced quotes
Each of these options is missing the closing single-quote on
the option name. This understandably confuses asciidoc,
which ends up rendering a stray quote, like:

  option cloning {'true|false}

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-13 12:55:36 -08:00
Stefan Beller
438fc68462 push options: pass push options to the transport helper
When using non-builtin protocols relying on a transport helper
(such as http), push options are not propagated to the helper.

The user could ask for push options and a push would seemingly succeed,
but the push options would never be transported to the server,
misleading the users expectation.

Fix this by propagating the push options to the transport helper.

This is only addressing the first issue of
   (1) the helper protocol does not propagate push-option
   (2) the http helper is not prepared to handle push-option

Once we fix (2), the http transport helper can make use of push options
as well, but that happens as a follow up. (1) is a bug fix, whereas (2)
is a feature, which is why we only do (1) here.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-08 15:45:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a460ea4a3c Merge branch 'nd/shallow-deepen'
The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use
correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone
deeper.  A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this
easier to use.  "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>"
and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify
"I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and
"Give me only the history since that version".

* nd/shallow-deepen: (27 commits)
  fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits
  upload-pack: add get_reachable_list()
  upload-pack: split check_unreachable() in two, prep for get_reachable_list()
  t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth excluding a ref
  clone: define shallow clone boundary with --shallow-exclude
  fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude
  upload-pack: support define shallow boundary by excluding revisions
  refs: add expand_ref()
  t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth since a specific date
  clone: define shallow clone boundary based on time with --shallow-since
  fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since
  upload-pack: add deepen-since to cut shallow repos based on time
  shallow.c: implement a generic shallow boundary finder based on rev-list
  fetch-pack: use a separate flag for fetch in deepening mode
  fetch-pack.c: mark strings for translating
  fetch-pack: use a common function for verbose printing
  fetch-pack: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with()
  upload-pack: move rev-list code out of check_non_tip()
  upload-pack: make check_non_tip() clean things up on error
  upload-pack: tighten number parsing at "deepen" lines
  ...
2016-10-10 14:03:50 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
661c3e9bc0 doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and
variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
bcf9626a71 doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
cccf74e2da fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits
In git-fetch, --depth argument is always relative with the latest
remote refs. This makes it a bit difficult to cover this use case,
where the user wants to make the shallow history, say 3 levels
deeper. It would work if remote refs have not moved yet, but nobody
can guarantee that, especially when that use case is performed a
couple months after the last clone or "git fetch --depth". Also,
modifying shallow boundary using --depth does not work well with
clones created by --since or --not.

This patch fixes that. A new argument --deepen=<N> will add <N> more (*)
parent commits to the current history regardless of where remote refs
are.

Have/Want negotiation is still respected. So if remote refs move, the
server will send two chunks: one between "have" and "want" and another
to extend shallow history. In theory, the client could send no "want"s
in order to get the second chunk only. But the protocol does not allow
that. Either you send no want lines, which means ls-remote; or you
have to send at least one want line that carries deep-relative to the
server..

The main work was done by Dongcan Jiang. I fixed it up here and there.
And of course all the bugs belong to me.

(*) We could even support --deepen=<N> where <N> is negative. In that
case we can cut some history from the shallow clone. This operation
(and --depth=<shorter depth>) does not require interaction with remote
side (and more complicated to implement as a result).

Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongcan Jiang <dongcan.jiang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13 14:38:16 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a45a260086 fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13 14:38:16 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
508ea88226 fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13 14:38:16 -07:00
Tom Russello
ae9f6311e9 doc: change configuration variables format
This change configuration variables that where in italic style
to monospace font according to the guideline. It was obtained with

	grep '[[:alpha:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]*::$' config.txt | \
	sed -e 's/::$//' -e 's/\./\\\\./' | \
	xargs -iP perl -pi -e "s/\'P\'/\`P\`/g" ./*.txt

Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08 12:04:55 -07:00
Tom Russello
eee7f4a233 doc: change environment variables format
This change GIT_* variables that where in italic style to monospaced font
according to the guideline. It was obtained with

	perl -pi -e "s/\'(GIT_.*?)\'/\`\1\`/g" *.txt

One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so
that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely
to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines).

Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08 12:04:37 -07:00
Dave Borowitz
b9299a2bb1 gitremote-helpers.txt: document pushcert option
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19 12:41:38 -07:00
Jeff King
4538a88256 doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
Text like "{foo}" triggers an AsciiDoc attribute; we have to
write "\{foo}" to suppress this. But when the "foo" is not a
syntactically valid attribute, we can skip the quoting. This
makes the source nicer to read, and looks better under
Asciidoctor. With AsciiDoc itself, this patch produces no
changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:14:46 -07:00
Max Horn
2672671872 doc: add some crossrefs between manual pages
In particular, git-fast-import and -export link to each
other, and gitremote-helpers links to existing remote
helpers, and vice versa. Also link to fast-import from the
remote helper spec, as this is relevant for remote helpers
using the fast-import format.

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-11 14:47:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
90e6255a6d Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-fixes'
Updates transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export to allow the
ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the natively
supported transports.

* fc/transport-helper-fixes:
  remote-bzr: support the new 'force' option
  test-hg.sh: tests are now expected to pass
  transport-helper.c: do not overwrite forced bit
  transport-helper: check for 'forced update' message
  transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers
  transport-helper: don't update refs in dry-run
  transport-helper: mismerge fix
2014-03-18 13:49:33 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
16094885ca smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:18 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
510fa6f518 transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers
Otherwise they cannot know when to force the push or not (other than
hacks).

Tests-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Documentation-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 13:34:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b828a0514 Merge branch 'mm/remote-helpers-doc'
* mm/remote-helpers-doc:
  Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref
2013-09-12 14:41:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
100ce1c543 Merge branch 'mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix'
* mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix:
  git-remote-mediawiki: no need to update private ref in non-dumb push
  git-remote-mediawiki: use no-private-update capability on dumb push
  transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
  git-remote-mediawiki: add test and check Makefile targets
2013-09-12 14:41:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
711b276974 Merge branch 'nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut'
* nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut:
  smart http: use the same connectivity check on cloning
2013-09-09 14:30:01 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
597b831afb transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
Since 664059fb (transport-helper: update remote helper namespace,
2013-04-17), a 'push' operation on a remote helper updates the
private ref by default. This is often a good thing, but it can also
be desirable to disable this update to force the next 'pull' to
re-import the pushed revisions.

Allow remote-helpers to disable the automatic update by introducing a new
capability.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-03 11:57:53 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
3f36eb4305 Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref
The current documentation mentions the private ref namespace, but does
not really explain why it can be useful.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-26 09:31:04 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9ba380481c smart http: use the same connectivity check on cloning
This is an extension of c6807a4 (clone: open a shortcut for
connectivity check - 2013-05-26) to reduce the cost of connectivity
check at clone time, this time with smart http protocol.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-23 12:18:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
766f0f8ef7 Merge branch 'fc/transport-helper-error-reporting'
Update transport helper to report errors and maintain ref hierarchy
used to keep track of remote helper state better.

* fc/transport-helper-error-reporting:
  transport-helper: fix remote helper namespace regression
  test: remote-helper: add missing and
  t5801: "VAR=VAL shell_func args" is forbidden
  transport-helper: update remote helper namespace
  transport-helper: trivial code shuffle
  transport-helper: warn when refspec is not used
  transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs
  transport-helper: update refspec documentation
  transport-helper: clarify *:* refspec
  transport-helper: improve push messages
  transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies
  transport-helper: report errors properly
2013-05-29 14:20:16 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
21610d820b transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs
This has never worked, since it's inception the code simply skips all
the refs, essentially telling fast-export to do nothing.

Let's at least tell the user what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
bb0a5cc9dc transport-helper: update refspec documentation
The refspec capability is not only used by 'import', also by
'export', and it's recommended in both.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
7a43c55415 transport-helper: clarify *:* refspec
The *:* refspec doesn't work, and never has, clarify the code and
documentation to reflect that. This in effect reverts commit 9e7673e
(gitremote-helpers(1): clarify refspec behaviour).

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 23:27:03 -07:00
John Keeping
0d957a4df5 transport-helper: add 'signed-tags' capability
This allows a remote helper using the 'export' protocol to specify that
it supports signed tags, changing the handing from 'warn-strip' to
'verbatim'.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 09:04:43 -07:00
John Keeping
9e7673ed7f gitremote-helpers(1): clarify refspec behaviour
The documentation says that "If no 'refspec' capability is advertised,
there is an implied `refspec *:*`" but this is only the case for the
"import" command.

Since there is a comment in transport-helper.c indicating that this
default is for historical reasons, change the documentation to clarify
that a refspec should always be specified.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07 00:40:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8e12ab2f33 Merge branch 'jk/remote-helpers-doc'
"git help remote-helpers" did not work; 'remote-helpers' is not
a subcommand name but a concept, so its documentation should have
been in gitremote-helpers, not git-remote-helpers.

* jk/remote-helpers-doc:
  Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
2013-02-07 14:41:45 -08:00
John Keeping
bd4a3d6168 Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
When looking up a topic via "git help <topic>", git-help prepends "git-"
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and "git" (no hyphen) to any other topic name.

"git-remote-helpers" is not the name of a command, so "git help
remote-helpers" looks for "gitremote-helpers" and does not find it.

Fix this by renaming "git-remote-helpers.txt" to
"gitremote-helpers.txt".

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 14:12:34 -08:00
Renamed from Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt (Browse further)