summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/man7/gitremote-helpers.7
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/gitremote-helpers.7')
-rw-r--r--man7/gitremote-helpers.725
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man7/gitremote-helpers.7 b/man7/gitremote-helpers.7
index 267dfe2ee..60be8033a 100644
--- a/man7/gitremote-helpers.7
+++ b/man7/gitremote-helpers.7
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
.\" Title: gitremote-helpers
.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author]
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 08/30/2022
+.\" Date: 09/01/2022
.\" Manual: Git Manual
-.\" Source: Git 2.37.3.446.gd42b38dfb5
+.\" Source: Git 2.37.3.485.gbe1a02a17e
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "GITREMOTE\-HELPERS" "7" "08/30/2022" "Git 2\&.37\&.3\&.446\&.gd42b38" "Git Manual"
+.TH "GITREMOTE\-HELPERS" "7" "09/01/2022" "Git 2\&.37\&.3\&.485\&.gbe1a02" "Git Manual"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ Supported commands:
.RS 4
Can guarantee that when a clone is requested, the received pack is self contained and is connected\&.
.RE
+.PP
+\fIget\fR
+.RS 4
+Can use the
+\fIget\fR
+command to download a file from a given URI\&.
+.RE
.sp
If a helper advertises \fIconnect\fR, Git will use it if possible and fall back to another capability if the helper requests so when connecting (see the \fIconnect\fR command under COMMANDS)\&. When choosing between \fIfetch\fR and \fIimport\fR, Git prefers \fIfetch\fR\&. Other frontends may have some other order of preference\&.
.RE
@@ -439,6 +446,18 @@ Experimental; for internal use only\&. Connects to the given remote service for
.sp
Supported if the helper has the "stateless\-connect" capability\&.
.RE
+.PP
+\fIget\fR <uri> <path>
+.RS 4
+Downloads the file from the given
+\fB<uri>\fR
+to the given
+\fB<path>\fR\&. If
+\fB<path>\&.temp\fR
+exists, then Git assumes that the
+\fB\&.temp\fR
+file is a partial download from a previous attempt and will resume the download from that position\&.
+.RE
.sp
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 completing a valid response for the current command\&.
.sp