Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Fix documentation grammar typo
  Allow curl helper to work without a local repository
  Require a struct remote in transport_get()

Documentation/git-describe.txt

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
 	tags/v1.0.0
 
 Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
-longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran these commands, as your
 git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
 975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
 be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.

builtin-ls-remote.c

@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			pattern[j - i] = p;
 		}
 	}
-	remote = nongit ? NULL : remote_get(dest);
-	if (remote && !remote->url_nr)
+	remote = remote_get(dest);
+	if (!remote->url_nr)
 		die("remote %s has no configured URL", dest);
-	transport = transport_get(remote, remote ? remote->url[0] : dest);
+	transport = transport_get(remote, remote->url[0]);
 	if (uploadpack != NULL)
 		transport_set_option(transport, TRANS_OPT_UPLOADPACK, uploadpack);
 

remote-curl.c

@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 	const char *url;
 	struct walker *walker = NULL;
+	int nongit;
 
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
-	setup_git_directory();
+	setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
 	if (argc < 2) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Remote needed\n");
 		return 1;
@@ -103,6 +104,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 			break;
 		if (!prefixcmp(buf.buf, "fetch ")) {
 			char *obj = buf.buf + strlen("fetch ");
+			if (nongit)
+				die("Fetch attempted without a local repo");
 			if (!walker)
 				walker = get_http_walker(url, remote);
 			walker->get_all = 1;

transport.c

@@ -812,6 +812,9 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
 {
 	struct transport *ret = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*ret));
 
+	if (!remote)
+		die("No remote provided to transport_get()");
+
 	ret->remote = remote;
 	ret->url = url;
 
@@ -849,10 +852,10 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
 		data->thin = 1;
 		data->conn = NULL;
 		data->uploadpack = "git-upload-pack";
-		if (remote && remote->uploadpack)
+		if (remote->uploadpack)
 			data->uploadpack = remote->uploadpack;
 		data->receivepack = "git-receive-pack";
-		if (remote && remote->receivepack)
+		if (remote->receivepack)
 			data->receivepack = remote->receivepack;
 	}