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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-04 16:02:29 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-06-18 12:36:00 -0700 |
| commit | b2ed944af79041b4da151a432064c3b1c1b82fc5 (patch) | |
| tree | c8b44001afc8eff3b318231169613125cea35b85 /Documentation/git-push.txt | |
| parent | t5570: do not assume the "matching" push is the default (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b2ed944af79041b4da151a432064c3b1c1b82fc5.tar.xz | |
push: switch default from "matching" to "simple"
We promised to change the behaviour of lazy "git push [there]" that
does not say what to push on the command line from "matching" to
"simple" in Git 2.0.
This finally flips that bit.
Helped-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-push.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 25 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 8b637d339f..2d8498a0a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -36,10 +36,14 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus `+`, 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. If not specified, + It is used to specify what <src> object the <dst> ref + in the remote repository is to be updated to. If no + <refspec> is specified on the command line, and if no + <refspec> is configured for the <repository>, the behavior of the command is controlled by the `push.default` - configuration variable. + configuration variable, and if it is unset, the `simple` + behaviour is used (see lingit:git-config[1] and look + for `push.default`). + 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 @@ -65,14 +69,11 @@ the remote repository. The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast-forward updates) 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) and -no `push.default` configuration variable is set. +already exists on the remote side. --all:: - Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all - refs under `refs/heads/` be pushed. + Push all branches (i.e. refs under `refs/heads/`); cannot be + used with other <refspec>. --prune:: Remove remote branches that don't have a local counterpart. For example @@ -357,8 +358,10 @@ Examples configured for the current branch). `git push origin`:: - Without additional configuration, works like - `git push origin :`. + Without additional configuration, pushes the current branch to + the configured upstream (`remote.origin.merge` configuration + variable) if it has the same name as the current branch, and + errors out without pushing otherwise. + The default behavior of this command when no <refspec> is given can be configured by setting the `push` option of the remote, or the `push.default` |