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* mm/remote-helpers-doc:
  Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref
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Junio C Hamano committed Sep 12, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -185,6 +185,12 @@ applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs
advertised with this capability must cover all refs reported by
the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised,
there is an implied `refspec *:*`.
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When writing remote-helpers for decentralized version control
systems, it is advised to keep a local copy of the repository to
interact with, and to let the private namespace refs point to this
local repository, while the refs/remotes namespace is used to track
the remote repository.

'bidi-import'::
This modifies the 'import' capability.
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