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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-12-27 14:57:50 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-12-27 14:57:50 -0800
commit7cdebd8a2039cb3ec717b880709ea6dfd824e3c4 (patch)
treef07fff24eb335bc59849625af60378a869f766a8 /Documentation
parentSync with 1.8.5.2 (diff)
parentpush: also use "upstream" mapping when pushing a single ref (diff)
downloadtgif-7cdebd8a2039cb3ec717b880709ea6dfd824e3c4.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/push-refmap'
Make "git push origin master" update the same ref that would be updated by our 'master' when "git push origin" (no refspecs) is run while the 'master' branch is checked out, which makes "git push" more symmetric to "git fetch" and more usable for the triangular workflow. * jc/push-refmap: push: also use "upstream" mapping when pushing a single ref push: use remote.$name.push as a refmap builtin/push.c: use strbuf instead of manual allocation
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 9eec740910..2b7f4f939f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -56,8 +56,13 @@ it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or
+
The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this
push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must
-be named. If `:`<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be
-updated.
+be named.
+If `git push [<repository>]` without any `<refspec>` argument is set to
+update some ref at the destination with `<src>` with
+`remote.<repository>.push` configuration variable, `:<dst>` part can
+be omitted---such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates
+without any `<refspec>` on the command line. Otherwise, missing
+`:<dst>` means to update the same ref as the `<src>`.
+
The object referenced by <src> is used to update the <dst> reference
on the remote side. By default this is only allowed if <dst> is not