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authorLibravatar Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>2009-12-09 17:26:28 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-09 12:40:42 -0800
commit28ed5b3524c1ee5245131691b783d897239f5b03 (patch)
treec39c412552734b84cd9c6c10144cb14b4919eb15 /Documentation
parentAdd remote helper debug mode (diff)
downloadtgif-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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
index 5cfdc0cfc5..20a05fe9d8 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>