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Some updates to refspec documentation

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AMAnders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
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Oct 29, 2008, 20:25 UTC
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I have skimmed the git-push manpage many times over a period of several months, without fully understanding it. Today I sat down and figured it out. It took some experiments and a little reading of the source.

Here I offer some updates to the refspec documentation, so that others can hopefully learn it faster than I did. As I expect some changes to be more controversial than others, I have split it up in several small parts. Feel free to squash.

There is a risk that I have changed some things to be wrong. I wanted to make this update while I was still a frustrated newbie.

Anders
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Message 1 of 15 in “Some updates to refspec documentation”
  1. Anders MelchiorsenOct 29, 2008
  2. 1/7 Documentation: do not use regexp in refspec descriptionsAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  3. 2/7 Documentation: git push repository can also be a remoteAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  4. 3/7 Documentation: rework SHA1 description in git pushAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  5. 4/7 Documentation: remove a redundant elaborationAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  6. 5/7 Documentation: elaborate on pushing tagsAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  7. 6/7 Documentation: mention branches rather than headsAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  8. 7/7 Documentation: avoid using undefined parametersAnders Melchiorsen, Oct 29, 2008
  9. Daniel BarkalowOct 29, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2008
  11. Anders MelchiorsenNov 2, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2008
  13. Anders MelchiorsenNov 2, 2008
  14. Anders MelchiorsenOct 29, 2008
  15. Anders MelchiorsenOct 29, 2008

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