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diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index a5fc54aeab..6a8a0d958b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,26 @@ 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>`.
+
+If <dst> doesn't start with `refs/` (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) we will
+try to infer where in `refs/*` on the destination <repository> it
+belongs based on the the type of <src> being pushed and whether <dst>
+is ambiguous.
++
+--
+* If <dst> unambiguously refers to a ref on the <repository> remote,
+ then push to that ref.
+
+* If <src> resolves to a ref starting with refs/heads/ or refs/tags/,
+ then prepend that to <dst>.
+
+* Other ambiguity resolutions might be added in the future, but for
+ now any other cases will error out with an error indicating what we
+ tried, and depending on the `advice.pushUnqualifiedRefname`
+ configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]) suggest what refs/
+ namespace you may have wanted to push to.
+
+--
++
The object referenced by <src> is used to update the <dst> reference
on the remote side. Whether this is allowed depends on where in
`refs/*` the <dst> reference lives as described in detail below, in
@@ -591,6 +611,9 @@ the ones in the examples below) can be configured as the default for
`refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in the `mothership` repository;
do the same for `dev` and `satellite/dev`.
+
+See the section describing `<refspec>...` above for a discussion of
+the matching semantics.
++
This is to emulate `git fetch` run on the `mothership` using `git
push` that is run in the opposite direction in order to integrate
the work done on `satellite`, and is often necessary when you can