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authorRamkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>2010-04-18 06:26:37 +0530
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-04-18 13:56:24 -0700
commit272a36b67b0df4725f3e28f3302f45274b39012f (patch)
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Fixup: Second argument may be any arbitrary string
This is intended to be a fixup for commit ad466d1 in pu. As Jonathan Neider pointed out, the second argument may be any arbitrary string, and need not conform to any URL-like shape. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> 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 1b66f57b44..2dd70031cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ INVOCATION
Remote helper programs are invoked with one or (optionally) two
arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in git;
it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second
-argument specifies a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>' or
-'<transport>::<address>', where '<address>' may be an arbitrary
-string.
+argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form
+'<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible.
When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where
'<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it