Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] document --exec for git-push

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:49
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Uwe Kleine-König  [off-list ref] writes:
The text is just copied from git-send-pack.txt.
Thanks.
There are still some options undocumented, but I don't know what they
do exacly:

	--thin
	--no-thin
	--repo=
	-v
Usually a good way to answer that question is:

	$ git blame -C -L'/^int cmd_push/,/^}/' builtin-push.c

and then run "git show" on the commit that introduces the option
parsing, e.g. commit bcc785f6 for --repo.

----------------------------------------------------------------
commit bcc785f611dc6084be75999a3b6bafcc950e21d6
Author: Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Oct 30 08:28:59 2006 -0800

git push: add verbose flag and allow overriding of default target repository

This adds a command line flag "-v" to enable a more verbose mode, and
"--repo=" to override the default target repository for "git push" (which
otherwise always defaults to "origin").

This, together with the patch to allow dashes in config variable names,
allows me to do

	[alias]
		push-all = push -v --repo=all

in my user-global config file, and then I can (for any project I maintain)
add to the project-local config file

	[remote "all"]
		url=one.target.repo:/directory
		url=another.target:/pub/somewhere/else

and now "git push-all" just updates all the target repositories, and shows
me what it does - regardless of which repo I am in.

----------------------------------------------------------------

But now I wonder why Linus couldn't have just done:

	[alias]
		push-all = push -v all

-- >8 --
git-push documentation: remaining bits

Mention --thin, --no-thin, --repo and -v. 

---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index a19631d..3e8dbcf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-push' [--all] [--tags] [--exec=<receive-pack>] [-f | --force] <repository> <refspec>...
+'git-push' [--all] [--tags] [--exec=<receive-pack>]  [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [--thin | --no-thin] [-v] [<repository> <refspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -79,6 +79,18 @@ the remote repository.
 	This flag disables the check.  This can cause the
 	remote repository to lose commits; use it with care.
 
+\--repo=<repo>::
+	When no repository is specified the command defaults to
+	"origin"; this overrides it.
+
+\--thin, \--no-thin::
+	These options are passed to `git-send-pack`.  Thin
+	transfer spends extra cycles to minimize the number of
+	objects to be sent and meant to be used on slower connection.
+
+-v::
+	Run verbosely.
+
 include::urls.txt[]
 
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