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Re: push.default documented in "man git-push"?

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:55
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

David Glasser wrote:
Is the newish push.default documented in the "git push" manpage
anywhere? I don't see it mentioned (and there are several references
to the "default" behavior), but maybe I'm missing something. Is it
left out on purpose (ie, config values aren't supposed to be mentioned
in command manpages)?
You're right.  It's documented in `man git-config`, but we should
probably mention it in the `git-push` manpage.

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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <redacted>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:37:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: mention `push.default` in git-push.txt

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-push.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index cb97cc1..8751b38 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
        `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
        by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
        It is used to specify with what <src> object the <dst> ref
-       in the remote repository is to be updated.
+       in the remote repository is to be updated.  If not specified,
+       the configuration variable `push.default` is used.
 +
 The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but
 it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or
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