[PATCH] Correct documentation for git-push --mirror

From

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Date

Jun 21, 2008, 03:25 UTC

Message-ID

<20080621032525.GA10020@spearce.org>

This option behaves more like:

  git push $url +refs/*:refs/*

then it does like:

  git push $url +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

so we should document it to be more clear about that.

Suggested-by: Marek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 Documentation/git-push.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 89e0049..f3d5d88 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below).
 
 --mirror::
 	Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all
-	refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/` and `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags/`
+	refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/` (which includes but is not
+	limited to `refs/heads/`, `refs/remotes/`, and `refs/tags/`)
 	be mirrored to the remote repository.  Newly created local
 	refs will be pushed to the remote end, locally updated refs
 	will be force updated on the remote end, and deleted refs

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