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@@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ Capabilities for Pushing
+
Supported commands: 'connect'.
+'stateless-connect'::
+ Experimental; for internal use only.
+ Can attempt to connect to a remote server for communication
+ using git's wire-protocol version 2. See the documentation
+ for the stateless-connect command for more information.
++
+Supported commands: 'stateless-connect'.
+
'push'::
Can discover remote refs and push local commits and the
history leading up to them to new or existing remote refs.
@@ -136,6 +144,14 @@ Capabilities for Fetching
+
Supported commands: 'connect'.
+'stateless-connect'::
+ Experimental; for internal use only.
+ Can attempt to connect to a remote server for communication
+ using git's wire-protocol version 2. See the documentation
+ for the stateless-connect command for more information.
++
+Supported commands: 'stateless-connect'.
+
'fetch'::
Can discover remote refs and transfer objects reachable from
them to the local object store.
@@ -375,6 +391,22 @@ Supported if the helper has the "export" capability.
+
Supported if the helper has the "connect" capability.
+'stateless-connect' <service>::
+ Experimental; for internal use only.
+ Connects to the given remote service for communication using
+ git's wire-protocol version 2. Valid replies to this command
+ are empty line (connection established), 'fallback' (no smart
+ transport support, fall back to dumb transports) and just
+ exiting with error message printed (can't connect, don't bother
+ trying to fall back). After line feed terminating the positive
+ (empty) response, the output of the service starts. Messages
+ (both request and response) must consist of zero or more
+ PKT-LINEs, terminating in a flush packet. The client must not
+ expect the server to store any state in between request-response
+ pairs. After the connection ends, the remote helper exits.
++
+Supported if the helper has the "stateless-connect" capability.
+
If a fatal error occurs, the program writes the error message to
stderr and exits. The caller should expect that a suitable error
message has been printed if the child closes the connection without
@@ -466,6 +498,13 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability.
Transmit <string> as a push option. As the push option
must not contain LF or NUL characters, the string is not encoded.
+'option from-promisor' {'true'|'false'}::
+ Indicate that these objects are being fetched from a promisor.
+
+'option no-dependents' {'true'|'false'}::
+ Indicate that only the objects wanted need to be fetched, not
+ their dependents.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-remote[1]