Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: explain push.default option a bit more
From: Michael Haggerty <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:53:38
On 04/21/2012 06:08 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Michael Haggerty[off-list ref] writes:quoted
"Atomic" implies that either the whole push succeeds or the whole push fails, and that readers will never see part of the push.Oh, I didn't mean "atomic" in that strict sense. After all this was a description at the workflow level--what the human user perceives.
That's what I suspected. Given that the word "atomic", for technical people, has a strict meaning that is not met here, and for non-technical people probably only means "nuclear", I suggest that the word be avoided in this explanation. Perhaps
* `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends.
This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable
shape and push them out atomically, and suitable when pushing to a
non-shared repository. [...]could be changed to
* `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends.
This allows those who prepare all the branches into a publishable
shape to push them out to a non-shared repository with a single> command. [...] Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/