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@xxxxxxxxx> --- I forgot to send v7 to the list, so here are the changes since v6: Corrected some factual errors pointed out by Jonathan and incorporated some other minor suggestions by Junio and Jonathan. Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt index 7a5569c..5a11b28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-remote-helpers - Helper programs to interact with remote repositories SYNOPSIS -------- -'git remote-<transport>' <remote> +'git remote-<transport>' <repository> [<URL>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -38,6 +38,35 @@ transport protocols, such as 'git-remote-http', 'git-remote-https', 'git-remote-ftp' and 'git-remote-ftps'. They implement the capabilities 'fetch', 'option', and 'push'. +INVOCATION +---------- + +Remote helper programs are invoked with one or (optionally) two +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 of the form '<transport>://<address>' or +'<transport>::<address>', where '<address>' may be an arbitrary +string. + +When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where +'<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it +automatically invokes 'git remote-<transport>' with the full URL as +the second argument. If such a URL is encountered directly on the +command line, the first argument is the same as the second, and if it +is encountered in a configured remote, the first argument is the name +of that remote. + +A URL of the form '<transport>::<address>' explicitly instructs git to +invoke 'git remote-<transport>' with '<address>' as the second +argument. If such a URL is encountered directly on the command line, +the first argument is '<address>', and if it is encountered in a +configured remote, the first argument is the name of that remote. + +Additionally, when a configured remote has 'remote.<name>.vcs' set to +'<transport>', git explicitly invokes 'git remote-<transport>' with +'<name>' as the first argument. If set, the second argument is +'remote.<name>.url'; otherwise, the second argument is omitted. + COMMANDS -------- @@ -206,6 +235,10 @@ OPTIONS must not rely on this option being set before connect request occurs. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-remote[1] + Documentation ------------- Documentation by Daniel Barkalow and Ilari Liusvaara -- 1.7.0.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html