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author | Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> | 2011-09-01 18:49:38 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-09-01 15:52:02 -0700 |
commit | 9609dc9ddcb1a79112eb45c88244cdbb622bd5bc (patch) | |
tree | 5406bcb378a642a28ad12d8931183fff300650b5 /git-remote-testgit.py | |
parent | 960e3114963dbb290c12f7a4d19c5776584d43ff (diff) | |
download | git-9609dc9ddcb1a79112eb45c88244cdbb622bd5bc.tar.gz |
(short) documentation for the testgit remote helper
While it's not a command meant to be used by actual users (hence, not
mentionned in git(1)), this command is a very precious help for
remote-helpers authors.
The best place for such technical doc is the source code, but users may
not find it without a link in a manpage.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/git-remote-testgit.py b/git-remote-testgit.py index e9c832bfd3..3dc4851cfc 100644 --- a/git-remote-testgit.py +++ b/git-remote-testgit.py @@ -1,5 +1,18 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python +# This command is a simple remote-helper, that is used both as a +# testcase for the remote-helper functionality, and as an example to +# show remote-helper authors one possible implementation. +# +# This is a Git <-> Git importer/exporter, that simply uses git +# fast-import and git fast-export to consume and produce fast-import +# streams. +# +# To understand better the way things work, one can activate debug +# traces by setting (to any value) the environment variables +# GIT_TRANSPORT_HELPER_DEBUG and GIT_DEBUG_TESTGIT, to see messages +# from the transport-helper side, or from this example remote-helper. + # hashlib is only available in python >= 2.5 try: import hashlib |