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authorLibravatar W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>2013-02-08 12:04:20 -0500
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-02-14 10:54:58 -0800
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user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
acd2a45 (Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push, 2009-02-11) changed the default to refuse such a push, but it forgot to update the docs. 7d182f5 (Documentation: receive.denyCurrentBranch defaults to 'refuse', 2010-03-17) updated Documentation/config.txt, but forgot to update the user manual. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Note that the target of a "push" is normally a
<<def_bare_repository,bare>> repository. You can also push to a
-repository that has a checked-out working tree, but the working tree
-will not be updated by the push. This may lead to unexpected results if
-the branch you push to is the currently checked-out branch!
+repository that has a checked-out working tree, but a push to update the
+currently checked-out branch is denied by default to prevent confusion.
+See the description ofthe receive.denyCurrentBranch option
+in linkgit:git-config[1] for details.
As with `git fetch`, you may also set up configuration options to
save typing; so, for example, after