[PATCH] Clarify that git-update-server-info should be run for every git-push
From: Pavel Roskin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:54
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The old text suggested that git-update-server-info only needs to be run if new tags or branches are created, but not for new commits. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <redacted> --- Documentation/repository-layout.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
index 863cb67..0459bd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt@@ -133,14 +133,14 @@ info:: in this directory. info/refs:: - This file is to help dumb transports to discover what - refs are available in this repository. Whenever you - create/delete a new branch or a new tag, `git - update-server-info` should be run to keep this file - up-to-date if the repository is published for dumb - transports. The `git-receive-pack` command, which is - run on a remote repository when you `git push` into it, - runs `hooks/update` hook to help you achieve this. + This file helps dumb transports discover what refs are + available in this repository. If the repository is + published for dumb transports, this file should be + regenerated by `git update-server-info` every time a tag + or branch is created or modified. This is normally done + from the `hooks/update` hook, which is run by the + `git-receive-pack` command when you `git push` into the + repository. info/grafts:: This file records fake commit ancestry information, to