From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] doc/remote-helpers: document the gitdir feature
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:04:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdFq_igyPMfhhKb-3v5Vnob-DQ9GLR0ONLEc+xjgTwZ1R1sRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310483428-29833-4-git-send-email-divanorama@gmail.com>
Heya,
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 17:10, Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com> wrote:
> The gitdir capability is recognized by git and can be used to tell
> the helper where the .git directory is. But it is not mentioned in
> the documentation.
>
> Document the gitdir feature. Upon reading this capability
> transport-helper sends out "gitdir path_to_dot_git" command to the
> helper. Which looks exactly like sending a command. So let's call
> this a command.
Johannes suggested that we should remove this feature and instead
always export an GITDIR environmental variable. I'm inclined to agree.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-12 15:10 [PATCH 0/3] doc/{fast-import,remote-helpers}: few clarifications Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-12 15:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] doc/fast-import: clarify notemodify command Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-12 15:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc/fast-import: document feature import-marks-if-exists Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-12 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-13 10:27 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 15:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] doc/remote-helpers: document the gitdir feature Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-13 12:04 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2011-07-13 17:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] doc/fast-import: clarify notemodify command Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-22 19:32 ` Johan Herland
2011-07-13 17:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] doc/fast-import: document feature import-marks-if-exists Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-13 17:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] remote-helpers: export GIT_DIR variable to helpers Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-13 17:14 ` Dmitry Ivankov
2011-07-13 17:36 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-07-13 18:10 ` Dmitry Ivankov
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