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[PATCH 6/5] git-push: Update description of refspecs and add examples

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:15
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---

 * This is primarily to describe the semantics [Patch 5/5] fixes.

 Documentation/git-push.txt |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 366c5db..665f6dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -53,9 +53,8 @@ side are updated.
 +
 `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
 +
-A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
-<ref>`:`<ref>, hence updates <ref> in the destination from <ref>
-in the source.
+A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source
+repository to the destination repository under the same name.
 +
 Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
 the remote repository.
@@ -98,6 +97,26 @@ the remote repository.
 
 include::urls.txt[]
 
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+git push origin master::
+	Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
+	(most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
+	the same ref (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) in `origin` repository
+	with it.
+
+git push origin :experimental::
+	Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository
+	(e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it.
+
+git push origin master:satellite/master::
+	Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
+	(most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
+	the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most likely, it would
+	be `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in `origin` repository with it.
+
 Author
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 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, later rewritten in C
-- 
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