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authorLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2009-10-30 17:47:29 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-10-30 19:20:54 -0700
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parentremote-helpers: Fetch more than one ref in a batch (diff)
downloadtgif-ef08ef9ea0a271e5be5844408d2496a946d6e8d9.tar.xz
remote-helpers: Support custom transport options
Some transports, like the native pack transport implemented by fetch-pack, support useful features like depth or include tags. These should be exposed if the underlying helper knows how to use them. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
index e44d821c7b..1133f047bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ Commands are given by the caller on the helper's standard input, one per line.
the name; unrecognized attributes are ignored. After the
complete list, outputs a blank line.
+'option' <name> <value>::
+ Set the transport helper option <name> to <value>. Outputs a
+ single line containing one of 'ok' (option successfully set),
+ 'unsupported' (option not recognized) or 'error <msg>'
+ (option <name> is supported but <value> is not correct
+ for it). Options should be set before other commands,
+ and may how those commands behave.
++
+Supported if the helper has the "option" capability.
+
'fetch' <sha1> <name>::
Fetches the given object, writing the necessary objects
to the database. Fetch commands are sent in a batch, one
@@ -63,11 +73,39 @@ CAPABILITIES
'fetch'::
This helper supports the 'fetch' command.
+'option'::
+ This helper supports the option command.
+
REF LIST ATTRIBUTES
-------------------
None are defined yet, but the caller must accept any which are supplied.
+OPTIONS
+-------
+'option verbosity' <N>::
+ Change the level of messages displayed by the helper.
+ When N is 0 the end-user has asked the process to be
+ quiet, and the helper should produce only error output.
+ N of 1 is the default level of verbosity, higher values
+ of N correspond to the number of -v flags passed on the
+ command line.
+
+'option progress' \{'true'|'false'\}::
+ Enable (or disable) progress messages displayed by the
+ transport helper during a command.
+
+'option depth' <depth>::
+ Deepen the history of a shallow repository.
+
+'option followtags' \{'true'|'false'\}::
+ If enabled the helper should automatically fetch annotated
+ tag objects if the object the tag points at was transferred
+ during the fetch command. If the tag is not fetched by
+ the helper a second fetch command will usually be sent to
+ ask for the tag specifically. Some helpers may be able to
+ use this option to avoid a second network connection.
+
Documentation
-------------
Documentation by Daniel Barkalow.