Re: [PATCH] doc: attempt to clarify a blurry sentence.

From: Lars Berntzon <lars.berntzon@cecilia-data.se>
Date: May 7, 2021, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <38c762aa-07b3-99c6-9fa7-8cbd667839bc@cecilia-data.se>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1019.git.git.1620319023972.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Yes, your text is clear. I realize now I miss-read the line as if it was:

   If git push [<repository>] without any <refspec> argument is set, to 
-update some ref at the destination with <src> with....

I mentally placed the comma there and then I could not get pass that (and for me there was no verb there to start with so I though it was the git-doc lingua).

But the main problem I have I guess is that the line refers to and , but those comes from the ref-spec, but the whole line is about when ref-spec is not specified so the placeholders and are not valid. Also your clarification contain <src> and <dst> but again without ref-spec that is not defined.

Regards, Lars

On 2021-05-06 18:37, Lars Berntzon via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> From: Lars Berntzon <lars.berntzon@external.atlascopco.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Berntzon <lars.berntzon@cecilia-data.se>
> ---
>      Attempt to clarify a blurry sentence.
>      
>      Signed-off-by: Lars Berntzon lars.berntzon@cecilia-data.se
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1019%2Flboclboc%2Fmaster-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1019/lboclboc/master-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1019
>
>   Documentation/git-push.txt | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> index a953c7c38790..bbb30c52395e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or
>   The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this
>   push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must
>   be named.
> -If `git push [<repository>]` without any `<refspec>` argument is set to
> -update some ref at the destination with `<src>` with
> -`remote.<repository>.push` configuration variable, `:<dst>` part can
> -be omitted--such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates
> +If `git push [<repository>]` without any `<refspec>` argument then
> +git will update the remote ref as defined by `remote.<repository>.push` configuration
> +and it will be updated from HEAD.
> +`:<dst>` part can be omitted--such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates
>   without any `<refspec>` on the command line.  Otherwise, missing
>   `:<dst>` means to update the same ref as the `<src>`.
>   +
>
> base-commit: 7e391989789db82983665667013a46eabc6fc570