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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 32ddc1cf13..1317db4d6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The parse-options API allows: * Boolean long options can be 'negated' (or 'unset') by prepending `no-`, e.g. `--no-abbrev` instead of `--abbrev`. Conversely, options that begin with `no-` can be 'negated' by removing it. + Other long options can be unset (e.g., set string to NULL, set + integer to 0) by prepending `no-`. * Options and non-option arguments can clearly be separated using the `--` option, e.g. `-a -b --option -- --this-is-a-file` indicates that @@ -174,6 +176,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`. The timestamp is put into `int_var`. +`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: + Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`. + The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + `OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`:: Introduce an option with argument. The argument will be fed into the function given by `func_ptr` diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index f1a51edf47..b898e97988 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -228,8 +228,7 @@ obtained through ref discovery. The client MUST write all obj-ids which it only has shallow copies of (meaning that it does not have the parents of a commit) as 'shallow' lines so that the server is aware of the limitations of -the client's history. Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which -it does not know exists on the server. +the client's history. The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the |