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| author | Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com> | 2011-07-16 15:03:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-19 11:17:47 -0700 |
| commit | e173587252ea0db16efc5c64c2cb165ccb406495 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c34a47459d9c83803e39c8763a1af56ececc2ef /Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt | |
| parent | b4b872994b59be397519ff76354ba4002e74de48 (diff) | |
| download | git-e173587252ea0db16efc5c64c2cb165ccb406495.tar.gz git-e173587252ea0db16efc5c64c2cb165ccb406495.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt index 58f6ad499..18b8341f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in git; it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form '<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible. +The 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set up for the remote helper +and can be used to determine where to store additional data or from +which directory to invoke auxiliary git commands. When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where '<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it |