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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt index c54b17d..5d245aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Remotes configuration API The API in remote.h gives access to the configuration related to remotes. It handles all three configuration mechanisms historically -and currently used by git, and presents the information in a uniform +and currently used by Git, and presents the information in a uniform fashion. Note that the code also handles plain URLs without any configuration, giving them just the default information. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct remote `receivepack`, `uploadpack`:: The configured helper programs to run on the remote side, for - git-native protocols. + Git-native protocols. `http_proxy`:: @@ -58,16 +58,16 @@ default remote, given the current branch and configuration. struct refspec -------------- -A struct refspec holds the parsed interpretation of a refspec. If it -will force updates (starts with a '+'), force is true. If it is a -pattern (sides end with '*') pattern is true. src and dest are the two -sides (if a pattern, only the part outside of the wildcards); if there -is only one side, it is src, and dst is NULL; if sides exist but are -empty (i.e., the refspec either starts or ends with ':'), the -corresponding side is "". +A struct refspec holds the parsed interpretation of a refspec. If it +will force updates (starts with a '+'), force is true. If it is a +pattern (sides end with '*') pattern is true. src and dest are the +two sides (including '*' characters if present); if there is only one +side, it is src, and dst is NULL; if sides exist but are empty (i.e., +the refspec either starts or ends with ':'), the corresponding side is +"". -This parsing can be done to an array of strings to give an array of -struct refpsecs with parse_ref_spec(). +An array of strings can be parsed into an array of struct refspecs +using parse_fetch_refspec() or parse_push_refspec(). remote_find_tracking(), given a remote and a struct refspec with either src or dst filled out, will fill out the other such that the |