Clarify that ${name} is required for replication.
The documentation now makes it clear that the ${name} wildcard is
required for gerrit to be able to match URLs to the projects that
it needs to replicate.
Bug: issue 896
Change-Id: I51a6ea29ced0b6bc782467692bfb22fe9a706207
Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/config-replication.txt b/Documentation/config-replication.txt
index 1e20d2b..76b7fff 100644
--- a/Documentation/config-replication.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config-replication.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@
+
Within each URL value the magic placeholder `$\{name}` is replaced
with the Gerrit project name. This is a Gerrit specific extension
-to the otherwise standard Git URL syntax.
+to the otherwise standard Git URL syntax and it must be included
+in each URL so that Gerrit can figure out where each project needs
+to be replicated.
+
See link:http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html#URLS[GIT URLS]
for details on Git URL syntax.