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Florian Achleitner
271bfd678b Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers
Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-07 14:10:17 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
9609dc9ddc (short) documentation for the testgit remote helper
While it's not a command meant to be used by actual users (hence, not
mentionned in git(1)), this command is a very precious help for
remote-helpers authors.

The best place for such technical doc is the source code, but users may
not find it without a link in a manpage.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-01 15:52:02 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
960e311496 Documentation/git-remote-helpers: explain how import works with multiple refs
This is important for two reasons:

* when two "import" lines follow each other, only one "done" command
  should be issued in the fast-import stream, not one per "import".

* The blank line terminating an import command should not be confused
  with the one terminating the sequence of commands.

While we're there, illustrate the corresponding explanation for push
batches with an example.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-01 15:51:48 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b4fc8d6ac6 Documentation/remote-helpers: explain capabilities first
The current remote helper documentation is from the perspective of
git, so to speak: it presents a full menu of commands for a person
invoking a remote helper to choose from.  In practice, that's less
useful than it could be, since the daunted novice remote-helper author
probably just wanted a list of commands needs to implement to get
started.  So preface the command list with an overview of each
capability, its purpose, and what commands it requires.

As a side effect, this makes it a little clearer that git doesn't
choose arbitrary commands to run, even if the remote helper advertises
all capabilities --- instead, there are well defined command sequences
for various tasks.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-29 21:25:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
59d9ba869e Merge branch 'sr/transport-helper-fix'
* sr/transport-helper-fix: (21 commits)
  transport-helper: die early on encountering deleted refs
  transport-helper: implement marks location as capability
  transport-helper: Use capname for refspec capability too
  transport-helper: change import semantics
  transport-helper: update ref status after push with export
  transport-helper: use the new done feature where possible
  transport-helper: check status code of finish_command
  transport-helper: factor out push_update_refs_status
  fast-export: support done feature
  fast-import: introduce 'done' command
  git-remote-testgit: fix error handling
  git-remote-testgit: only push for non-local repositories
  remote-curl: accept empty line as terminator
  remote-helpers: export GIT_DIR variable to helpers
  git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a non-local export
  transport-helper: don't feed bogus refs to export push
  git-remote-testgit: import non-HEAD refs
  t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
  t5800: use skip_all instead of prereq
  t5800: factor out some ref tests
  ...
2011-08-01 15:00:14 -07:00
Dmitry Ivankov
e173587252 remote-helpers: export GIT_DIR variable to helpers
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 and considered worse than if gitdir was passed
via GIT_DIR environment variable.

Remove support for the gitdir capability and export GIT_DIR instead.
Teach testgit to use env instead of the now-removed gitdir command.

[sr: fixed up documentation]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-19 11:17:47 -07:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
7791a1d9b9 Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.

Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.

While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
8e4414edde Documentation: do not misinterpret refspecs as bold text
In v1.7.3.3~2 (Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold
text, 2010-12-03) many uses of asterisks in expressions like
"refs/heads/*:refs/svn/origin/branches/*" were escaped as {asterisk}
to avoid being treated as delimiters for bold text, but these two were
missed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-30 12:55:16 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Michael J Gruber
3b0d24053b Make <identifier> lowercase in Documentation
Leaving uppercase abbreviations (e.g. URL) and an identifier named after
an upercase env variable (CVSROOT) in place, this adjusts the few
remaining cases and fixes an unidentified identifier along the way.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-17 11:49:54 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
d43427d3d9 Documentation/remote-helpers: Fix typos and improve language
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>
2010-04-18 13:56:29 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
272a36b67b Fixup: Second argument may be any arbitrary string
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>
2010-04-18 13:56:24 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
b6c8d2d663 Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section
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>
2010-04-18 13:56:17 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
00b84e9dbf Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite description
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>
2010-04-18 13:55:41 -07:00
Ralf Wildenhues
6a5d0b0a90 Fix typos in technical documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-31 10:24:53 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
fa8c097cc9 Support remote helpers implementing smart transports
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-28 00:24:11 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
28ed5b3524 Support mandatory capabilities
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>
2009-12-09 12:40:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a24a32ddb3 Merge branch 'master' into il/vcs-helper
* 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>
2009-12-06 22:40:16 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
f8ec916731 Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
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>
2009-11-17 21:45:44 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
72ff894308 Allow helper to map private ref names into normal names
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>
2009-11-17 21:45:44 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
e65e91ed4a Add support for "import" helper command
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>
2009-11-17 21:45:44 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ae4efe1957 Move WebDAV HTTP push under remote-curl
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>
2009-10-30 19:20:54 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ef08ef9ea0 remote-helpers: Support custom transport options
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>
2009-10-30 19:20:54 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
292ce46b60 remote-helpers: Fetch more than one ref in a batch
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>
2009-10-30 19:20:54 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
6eb996b570 Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
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>
2009-08-05 10:34:01 -07:00