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diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 13980257ee..d51481394c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] +'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] [-u | --set-upstream] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] @@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ You can make interesting things happen to a repository every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there. See documentation for linkgit:git-receive-pack[1]. +When the command line does not specify where to push with the +`<repository>` argument, `branch.*.remote` configuration for the +current branch is consulted to determine where to push. If the +configuration is missing, it defaults to 'origin'. + +When the command line does not specify what to push with `<refspec>...` +arguments or `--all`, `--mirror`, `--tags` options, the command finds +the default `<refspec>` by consulting `remote.*.push` configuration, +and if it is not found, honors `push.default` configuration to decide +what to push (See gitlink:git-config[1] for the meaning of `push.default`). + OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] ------------------ @@ -33,13 +44,10 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below). <refspec>...:: + Specify what destination ref to update with what source object. The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus - `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed + `+`, followed by the source object <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. - It is used to specify with what <src> object the <dst> ref - in the remote repository is to be updated. If not specified, - the behavior of the command is controlled by the `push.default` - configuration variable. + The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or @@ -66,10 +74,7 @@ the remote repository. The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast-forward updates) directs Git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name -already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode -if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line -nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below) and -no `push.default` configuration variable is set. +already exists on the remote side. --all:: Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all @@ -112,6 +117,12 @@ no `push.default` configuration variable is set. addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command line. +--follow-tags:: + 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 committish that are + reachable from the refs being pushed. + --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: --exec=<git-receive-pack>:: Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote @@ -151,8 +162,7 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'. linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information, see 'branch.<name>.merge' in linkgit:git-config[1]. ---thin:: ---no-thin:: +--[no-]thin:: These options are passed to linkgit:git-send-pack[1]. A thin transfer significantly reduces the amount of sent data when the sender and receiver share many of the same objects in common. The default is |