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[PATCH v3 1/9] user-manual: Use 'remote add' to setup push URLs

From: W. Trevor King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:10
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

From: "W. Trevor King" <redacted>

There is no need to use here documents to setup this configuration.
It is easier, less confusing, and more robust to use `git remote add`
directly.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <redacted>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 5077e7c..a060eb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1998,16 +1998,21 @@ will not be updated by the push.  This may lead to unexpected results if
 the branch you push to is the currently checked-out branch!
 
 As with `git fetch`, you may also set up configuration options to
-save typing; so, for example, after
+save typing; so, for example:
+
+-------------------------------------------------
+$ git remote add public-repo ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+adds the following to `.git/config`:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-$ cat >>.git/config <<EOF
 [remote "public-repo"]
-	url = ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git
-EOF
+	url = yourserver.com:proj.git
+	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/example/*
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-you should be able to perform the above push with just
+which lets you do the same push with just
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ git push public-repo master
-- 
1.8.1.336.g94702dd
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