From: Abhijit Menon-Sen Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:09:19 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs Message-ID: <1217362159-25440-1-git-send-email-ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen --- 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=] - [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose] [ ...] + [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose] + [ ...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -33,7 +34,8 @@ OPTIONS The canonical format of a parameter is `+?:`; 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 parameters + may be specified. + The 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 -- 1.6.0.rc0.43.g2aa74