Merge branch 'js/http-mb'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-http-fetch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
index 1116e855d6538f8d0e45f1cea60a2ef716991a3d..3d508094afc6a79d40b84ce0a3380f487a40d5e8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ git-http-fetch(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-http-fetch - Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP
+git-http-fetch - downloads a remote git repository via HTTP
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] commit-id url
+'git-http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [--stdin] <commit> <url>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ commit-id::
         Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on
         the local end after the transfer is complete.
 
+--stdin::
+       Instead of a commit id on the commandline (which is not expected in this
+       case), 'git-http-fetch' expects lines on stdin in the format
+
+               <commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>