Merge remote branch 'ko/master' into jc/read-tree-cache-tree-fix

* ko/master: (2325 commits)
  Git 1.7.2-rc2
  backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
  fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices
  t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX
  add missing && to submodule-merge testcase
  t/README: document more test helpers
  test-date: fix sscanf type conversion
  xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
  gitweb: Move evaluate_gitweb_config out of run_request
  parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculation
  t0006: test timezone parsing
  rerere.txt: Document forget subcommand
  t/README: proposed rewording...
  t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests
  t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
  t/README: Document test_expect_code
  t/README: Document test_external*
  t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_*
  t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel
  t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name'
  ...

Conflicts:
	builtin-read-tree.c

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 5355ebc0f3..1dcd1e7f1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -1,50 +1,57 @@
 GIT URLS[[URLS]]
 ----------------
 
-One of the following notations can be used
-to name the remote repository:
+In general, URLs contain information about the transport protocol, the
+address of the remote server, and the path to the repository.
+Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be
+absent.
+
+Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync
+protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them:
 
-===============================================================
-- rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- http://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- https://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~user/path/to/repo.git/
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
-- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git
-===============================================================
-
-SSH is the default transport protocol over the network.  You can
-optionally specify which user to log-in as, and an alternate,
-scp-like syntax is also supported.  Both syntaxes support
-username expansion, as does the native git protocol, but
-only the former supports port specification. The following
-three are identical to the last three above, respectively:
-
-===============================================================
-- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/
-- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:~user/path/to/repo.git/
-- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git
-===============================================================
-
-To sync with a local directory, you can use:
-
-===============================================================
+- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- http{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- ftp{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
+
+An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:
+
+- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/
+
+The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:
+
+- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+
+For local respositories, also supported by git natively, the following
+syntaxes may be used:
+
 - /path/to/repo.git/
 - file:///path/to/repo.git/
-===============================================================
 
 ifndef::git-clone[]
-They are mostly equivalent, except when cloning.  See
-linkgit:git-clone[1] for details.
+These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when
+the former implies --local option. See linkgit:git-clone[1] for
+details.
 endif::git-clone[]
 
 ifdef::git-clone[]
-They are equivalent, except the former implies --local option.
+These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
+--local option.
 endif::git-clone[]
 
+When git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it
+attempts to use the 'remote-<transport>' remote helper, if one
+exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax
+may be used:
+
+- <transport>::<address>
+
+where <address> may be a path, a server and path, or an arbitrary
+URL-like string recognized by the specific remote helper being
+invoked. See linkgit:git-remote-helpers[1] for details.
 
 If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and
 you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you
@@ -67,3 +74,21 @@ For example, with this:
 a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be
 rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".
 
+If you want to rewrite URLs for push only, you can create a
+configuration section of the form:
+
+------------
+	[url "<actual url base>"]
+		pushInsteadOf = <other url base>
+------------
+
+For example, with this:
+
+------------
+	[url "ssh://example.org/"]
+		pushInsteadOf = git://example.org/
+------------
+
+a URL like "git://example.org/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten to
+"ssh://example.org/path/to/repo.git" for pushes, but pulls will still
+use the original URL.