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| author |  Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> | 2012-10-02 21:08:00 +0530 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-02 12:07:44 -0700 |
| commit | 1ec6f488de495a3b77b6a6b6fb42919f64a4bff0 (patch) | |
| tree | cfa7b66939ba9cee6e7f22b89fb078ccc197be15 /Documentation/git-push.txt | |
| parent | RelNotes/1.8.0: various typo and style fixes (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1ec6f488de495a3b77b6a6b6fb42919f64a4bff0.tar.xz | |
Documentation: mention `push.default` in git-push.txt
It already is listed in the "git config" documentation, but people
interested in pushing would first look at "git push" documentation.
Noticed-by: David Glasser
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Fixed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-push.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index cb97cc1c3b..22d2580129 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. It is used to specify with what <src> object the <dst> ref - in the remote repository is to be updated. + in the remote repository is to be updated. If not specified, + the behavior of the command is controlled by the `push.default` + configuration variable. + The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or @@ -65,7 +67,8 @@ directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line -nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below). +nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below) and +no `push.default` configuration variable is set. --all:: Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all @@ -357,7 +360,8 @@ Examples `git push origin :`. + The default behavior of this command when no <refspec> is given can be -configured by setting the `push` option of the remote. +configured by setting the `push` option of the remote, or the `push.default` +configuration variable. + For example, to default to pushing only the current branch to `origin` use `git config remote.origin.push HEAD`. Any valid <refspec> (like |