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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 |