Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-push.txt: fix typo in remote tracking branch path

> Brandon Casey <bcasey@nvidia.com> writes:
>
>> From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
>>
>> This example in the documentation seems to be trying to describe the likely
>> remote tracking branch that will be updated by a push to the "origin" remote
>> with the destination branch 'satellite/master', but it forgot to specify
>> the remote name in the path specification.
>>
>> So,
>>
>>     refs/remotes/satellite/master
>>
>> should be spelled like
>>
>>     refs/remotes/origin/satellite/master
>
> I might make sense to rename 'origin' to 'mothership' in that
> example and explain that this is emulating 'git fetch' run on the
> mothership to integrate the work done on 'satellite' using 'git
> push' in the opposite direction, which is often necessary when you
> can only make connection in one way (i.e. satellite can ssh into
> mothership but mothership cannot initiate connection to satellite
> because the latter is behind a firewall or does not run sshd).
>
> If you were to run 'git fetch' on the mothership to intgrate the
> work on the 'satellite', it would have a remote called 'satellite',
> and would keep remote-tracking branches for the branches local to
> 'satellite' in the 'refs/remotes/satellite/' hierarchy.  You would
> push your local 'master' to their 'refs/remotes/satellite/master',
> to emulate 'git fetch' done on the mothership in the reverse
> direction.
>
> So refs are correct. The context is not sufficiently explained.