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diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index e1a46a7958..135d810b7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ already exists on the remote side. Push all the refs that would be pushed without this option, and also push annotated tags in `refs/tags` that are missing from the remote but are pointing at commit-ish that are - reachable from the refs being pushed. + reachable from the refs being pushed. This can also be specified + with configuration variable 'push.followTags'. For more + information, see 'push.followTags' in linkgit:git-config[1]. + --signed:: GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving @@ -154,9 +157,8 @@ already exists on the remote side. Usually, "git push" refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. + -This option bypasses the check, but instead requires that the -current value of the ref to be the expected value. "git push" -fails otherwise. +This option overrides this restriction if the current value of the +remote ref is the expected value. "git push" fails otherwise. + Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published. You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to @@ -168,15 +170,14 @@ commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work. This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref still points at the commit you specified, you can be sure that no -other people did anything to the ref (it is like taking a "lease" on -the ref without explicitly locking it, and you update the ref while -making sure that your earlier "lease" is still valid). +other people did anything to the ref. It is like taking a "lease" on +the ref without explicitly locking it, and the remote ref is updated +only if the "lease" is still valid. + `--force-with-lease` alone, without specifying the details, will protect all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have -for them, unless specified with a `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>` -option that explicitly states what the expected value is. +for them. + `--force-with-lease=<refname>`, without specifying the expected value, will protect the named ref (alone), if it is going to be updated, by @@ -264,8 +265,8 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the --[no-]verify:: Toggle the pre-push hook (see linkgit:githooks[5]). The - default is \--verify, giving the hook a chance to prevent the - push. With \--no-verify, the hook is bypassed completely. + default is --verify, giving the hook a chance to prevent the + push. With --no-verify, the hook is bypassed completely. include::urls-remotes.txt[] |