[PATCH] Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs
From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:04
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <redacted> --- Documentation/git-push.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 94d07ab..b8c55dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git push' [--all] [--dry-run] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] - [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose] [<repository> <refspec>...] + [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose] + [<repository> <refspec>...] DESCRIPTION -----------
@@ -33,7 +34,8 @@ OPTIONS The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is `+?<src>:<dst>`; that is, an optional plus `+`, followed by the source ref, followed by a colon `:`, followed by - the destination ref. + the destination ref. Any number of <refspec> parameters + may be specified. + The <src> side represents the source branch (or arbitrary "SHA1 expression", such as `master~4` (four parents before the
@@ -180,6 +182,10 @@ 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 master:other:: + Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository and in + the `origin` repository update refs `master` and `other` to 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
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