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author | Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> | 2013-10-23 17:50:37 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-10-24 13:28:28 -0700 |
commit | 5b2515f4007ce0fe3d61197905c41eee5a3d06c1 (patch) | |
tree | 71c08a65deb12502499ae462a8b405d981427cd3 | |
parent | t5510: check that "git fetch --prune --tags" does not prune branches (diff) | |
download | tgif-5b2515f4007ce0fe3d61197905c41eee5a3d06c1.tar.xz |
api-remote.txt: correct section "struct refspec"
* Replace reference to function parse_ref_spec() with references to
functions parse_fetch_refspec() and parse_push_refspec().
* Correct description of src and dst: they *do* include the '*'
characters.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt index 4be87768f6..5d245aa9d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt @@ -58,16 +58,16 @@ default remote, given the current branch and configuration. struct refspec -------------- -A struct refspec holds the parsed interpretation of a refspec. If it -will force updates (starts with a '+'), force is true. If it is a -pattern (sides end with '*') pattern is true. src and dest are the two -sides (if a pattern, only the part outside of the wildcards); if there -is only one side, it is src, and dst is NULL; if sides exist but are -empty (i.e., the refspec either starts or ends with ':'), the -corresponding side is "". - -This parsing can be done to an array of strings to give an array of -struct refpsecs with parse_ref_spec(). +A struct refspec holds the parsed interpretation of a refspec. If it +will force updates (starts with a '+'), force is true. If it is a +pattern (sides end with '*') pattern is true. src and dest are the +two sides (including '*' characters if present); if there is only one +side, it is src, and dst is NULL; if sides exist but are empty (i.e., +the refspec either starts or ends with ':'), the corresponding side is +"". + +An array of strings can be parsed into an array of struct refspecs +using parse_fetch_refspec() or parse_push_refspec(). remote_find_tracking(), given a remote and a struct refspec with either src or dst filled out, will fill out the other such that the |