remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h

Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt to
remote.h and refspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

N.B. The doc for both push and fetch members of the remote struct aren't
moved because they are out of date, as the members were changed from arrays
of rspecs to struct refspec 2 years ago.

Also documentation/technical/api-remote.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: HebaWaly

Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt

@@ -20,6 +20,22 @@ struct refspec_item {
 #define REFSPEC_INIT_FETCH { .fetch = REFSPEC_FETCH }
 #define REFSPEC_INIT_PUSH { .fetch = REFSPEC_PUSH }
 
+/**
+ * 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 "".
+ *
+ * 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 result is in the
+ * "fetch" specification for the remote (note that this evaluates patterns and
+ * returns a single result).
+ */
 struct refspec {
 	struct refspec_item *items;
 	int alloc;

refspec.h

@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@
 #include "hashmap.h"
 #include "refspec.h"
 
+/**
+ * The API 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 fashion. Note that the code also
+ * handles plain URLs without any configuration, giving them just the default
+ * information.
+ */
+
 enum {
 	REMOTE_UNCONFIGURED = 0,
 	REMOTE_CONFIG,
@@ -16,16 +24,22 @@ enum {
 struct remote {
 	struct hashmap_entry ent;
 
+	/* The user's nickname for the remote */
 	const char *name;
+
 	int origin, configured_in_repo;
 
 	const char *foreign_vcs;
 
+	/* An array of all of the url_nr URLs configured for the remote */
 	const char **url;
+
 	int url_nr;
 	int url_alloc;
 
+	/* An array of all of the pushurl_nr push URLs configured for the remote */
 	const char **pushurl;
+
 	int pushurl_nr;
 	int pushurl_alloc;
 
@@ -34,32 +48,47 @@ struct remote {
 	struct refspec fetch;
 
 	/*
+	 * The setting for whether to fetch tags (as a separate rule from the
+	 * configured refspecs);
 	 * -1 to never fetch tags
 	 * 0 to auto-follow tags on heuristic (default)
 	 * 1 to always auto-follow tags
 	 * 2 to always fetch tags
 	 */
 	int fetch_tags;
+
 	int skip_default_update;
 	int mirror;
 	int prune;
 	int prune_tags;
 
+	/**
+	 * The configured helper programs to run on the remote side, for
+	 * Git-native protocols.
+	 */
 	const char *receivepack;
 	const char *uploadpack;
 
-	/*
-	 * for curl remotes only
-	 */
+	/* The proxy to use for curl (http, https, ftp, etc.) URLs. */
 	char *http_proxy;
+
+	/* The method used for authenticating against `http_proxy`. */
 	char *http_proxy_authmethod;
 };
 
+/**
+ * struct remotes can be found by name with remote_get().
+ * remote_get(NULL) will return the default remote, given the current branch
+ * and configuration.
+ */
 struct remote *remote_get(const char *name);
+
 struct remote *pushremote_get(const char *name);
 int remote_is_configured(struct remote *remote, int in_repo);
 
 typedef int each_remote_fn(struct remote *remote, void *priv);
+
+/* iterate through struct remotes */
 int for_each_remote(each_remote_fn fn, void *priv);
 
 int remote_has_url(struct remote *remote, const char *url);
@@ -194,16 +223,36 @@ struct ref *get_remote_ref(const struct ref *remote_refs, const char *name);
  */
 int remote_find_tracking(struct remote *remote, struct refspec_item *refspec);
 
+/**
+ * struct branch holds the configuration for a branch. It can be looked up with
+ * branch_get(name) for "refs/heads/{name}", or with branch_get(NULL) for HEAD.
+ */
 struct branch {
+
+	/* The short name of the branch. */
 	const char *name;
+
+	/* The full path for the branch ref. */
 	const char *refname;
 
+	/* The name of the remote listed in the configuration. */
 	const char *remote_name;
+
 	const char *pushremote_name;
 
+	/* An array of the "merge" lines in the configuration. */
 	const char **merge_name;
+
+	/**
+	 * An array of the struct refspecs used for the merge lines. That is,
+	 * merge[i]->dst is a local tracking ref which should be merged into this
+	 * branch by default.
+	 */
 	struct refspec_item **merge;
+
+	/* The number of merge configurations */
 	int merge_nr;
+
 	int merge_alloc;
 
 	const char *push_tracking_ref;
@@ -215,7 +264,9 @@ const char *pushremote_for_branch(struct branch *branch, int *explicit);
 const char *remote_ref_for_branch(struct branch *branch, int for_push,
 				  int *explicit);
 
+/* returns true if the given branch has merge configuration given. */
 int branch_has_merge_config(struct branch *branch);
+
 int branch_merge_matches(struct branch *, int n, const char *);
 
 /**