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Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref

The current documentation mentions the private ref namespace, but does
not really explain why it can be useful.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Matthieu Moy 12 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt

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Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt

@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs @@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ 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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