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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2014-02-28 05:01:29 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-02-28 09:55:35 -0800 |
| commit | 69897bc2b8b49c09190cce065c027612b21c2d97 (patch) | |
| tree | f3f995e0ad0d4a296341deb92a37b1f99d270513 /Documentation/git-archive.txt | |
| parent | 5f95c9f850b19b368c43ae399cc831b17a26a5ac (diff) | |
| download | git-69897bc2b8b49c09190cce065c027612b21c2d97.tar.gz git-69897bc2b8b49c09190cce065c027612b21c2d97.tar.xz | |
docs: clarify remote restrictions for git-upload-archive
Commits ee27ca4 and 0f544ee introduced rules by which
git-upload-archive would restrict clients from accessing
unreachable objects. However, we never documented those
rules anywhere, nor their reason for being. Let's do so now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-archive.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-archive.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index b97aaab4e..cfa1e4ebe 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ OPTIONS --remote=<repo>:: Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, - retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. + retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the + remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1 + expressions may be allowed in `<tree-ish>`. See + linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for details. --exec=<git-upload-archive>:: Used with --remote to specify the path to the |