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| author | Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> | 2009-12-09 17:26:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-09 12:40:42 -0800 |
| commit | 28ed5b3524c1ee5245131691b783d897239f5b03 (patch) | |
| tree | c39c412552734b84cd9c6c10144cb14b4919eb15 /Documentation | |
| parent | bf3c523c3fd641609adcef67dcec47a43a6abd60 (diff) | |
| download | git-28ed5b3524c1ee5245131691b783d897239f5b03.tar.gz git-28ed5b3524c1ee5245131691b783d897239f5b03.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt index 5cfdc0cfc..20a05fe9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ Commands are given by the caller on the helper's standard input, one per line. 'capabilities':: Lists the capabilities of the helper, one per line, ending - with a blank line. + with a blank line. Each capability may be preceeded with '*'. + This marks them mandatory for git version using the remote + helper to understand (unknown mandatory capability is fatal + error). 'list':: Lists the refs, one per line, in the format "<value> <name> |