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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 399821832c..deaa7d9654 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Usually you would want to use 'git-push', which is a +Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1]. Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ OPTIONS Run verbosely. --thin:: - Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent. - Use it on slower connection. + Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based + on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. <host>:: A remote host to house the repository. When this @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same -rules used by 'git-rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref +rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the @@ -105,11 +105,11 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an -ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast forward check", +ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. -With '--force', the fast forward check is disabled for all refs. +With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs. Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref. |