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Re: [PATCH v2 02/15] user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2013, 18:57 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:24:47PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> I would not be surprised if some readers felt as if "then why not
>>> update it instead of rejecting?" were a valid question, without a
>>> bit more explanation.
>>>
>>> 	You can also push to a repository that has a working tree,
>>>   …
>>
>> Looks good to me :).  Shall I just drop this patch from v3 and leave
>> it to you?
>
> No.
>
> Others need to object to, comment on and polish what you saw from
> me, before it turns into a commit.  And you need to be credited for
> identifying the problem, initiating the discussion, and collecting
> responses to result in the final patch.

I did not think the detailed discussion belongs there in the first place, so I re-read the context. I think the only thing the reader of the user manual needs to learn at that point of the flow is that they can push to a non-bare but cannot push to update the currently checked out branch by default. So let's tone everything down and do this instead:

-- >8 --
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:04:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse

acd2a45 (Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push, 2009-02-11) changed the default to refuse such a push, but it forgot to update the docs.

7d182f5 (Documentation: receive.denyCurrentBranch defaults to 'refuse', 2010-03-17) updated Documentation/config.txt, but forgot to update the user manual.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 85651b5..7c534dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1986,9 +1986,10 @@ handling this case.
 
 Note that the target of a "push" is normally a
 <<def_bare_repository,bare>> repository.  You can also push to a
-repository that has a checked-out working tree, but the working tree
-will not be updated by the push.  This may lead to unexpected results if
-the branch you push to is the currently checked-out branch!
+repository that has a checked-out working tree, but a push to update the
+currently checked-out branch is denied by default to prevent confusion.
+See the description ofthe receive.denyCurrentBranch option
+in linkgit:git-config[1] for details.
 
 As with `git fetch`, you may also set up configuration options to
 save typing; so, for example, after
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  1. user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packingW. Trevor King, Feb 8, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  3. W. Trevor KingFeb 8, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  6. 00/15 User manual updatesW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  7. 01/15 user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packingW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  8. 02/15 user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuseW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  10. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2013
  13. W. Trevor KingFeb 17, 2013
  14. 0/9 User manual updatesW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  15. 1/9 user-manual: Use 'remote add' to setup push URLsW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  17. Jonathan NiederFeb 18, 2013
  18. 2/9 user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'W. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  20. W. Trevor KingFeb 18, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  22. 3/9 user-manual: Give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +masterW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  24. 4/9 user-manual: Mention 'git remote add' for remote branch configW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  25. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  26. W. Trevor KingFeb 18, 2013
  27. 5/9 user-manual: Standardize backtick quotingW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  28. user-manual: Standardize backtick quotingW. Trevor King, Feb 25, 2013
  29. 6/9 user-manual: Use 'git config --global user.*' for setupW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  30. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  31. W. Trevor KingFeb 18, 2013
  32. 7/9 user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" textW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  33. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  34. 8/9 user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updatesW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  35. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  36. W. Trevor KingFeb 19, 2013
  37. 9/9 user-manual: Use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarballW. Trevor King, Feb 18, 2013
  38. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  39. W. Trevor KingFeb 18, 2013
  40. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  41. W. Trevor KingFeb 18, 2013
  42. W. Trevor KingFeb 19, 2013
  43. 0/3 User manual updatesW. Trevor King, Feb 19, 2013
  44. 1/3 user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'W. Trevor King, Feb 19, 2013
  45. Junio C HamanoFeb 19, 2013
  46. W. Trevor KingFeb 19, 2013
  47. Junio C HamanoFeb 19, 2013
  48. user-manual: Fix the interactive rebase example commit rangeW. Trevor King, Mar 24, 2013
  49. Eric SunshineMar 24, 2013
  50. W. Trevor KingMar 24, 2013
  51. 2/3 user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" textW. Trevor King, Feb 19, 2013
  52. 3/3 user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updatesW. Trevor King, Feb 19, 2013
  53. Drew NorthupFeb 18, 2013
  54. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2013
  55. 03/15 user-manual: Use 'remote add' to setup push URLsW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  56. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  57. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  58. Jonathan NiederFeb 10, 2013
  59. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  60. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  61. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  62. 04/15 user-manual: Use git branch --mergedW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  63. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  64. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  65. 05/15 user-manual: Add a few references to 'git rebase -i'W. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  66. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  67. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  68. 06/15 user-manual: Give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +masterW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  69. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  70. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  71. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  72. 07/15 user-manual: Mention 'git remote add' for remote branch configW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  73. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  74. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  75. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  76. 08/15 user-manual: Standardize backtick quotingW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  77. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  78. 09/15 user-manual: Use 'git config --global user.*' for setupW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  79. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  80. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  81. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  82. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  83. 10/15 user-manual: Fix 'both: so' -> 'both; so' typoW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  84. 11/15 user-manual: Fix 'http' -> 'HTTP' typosW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  85. 12/15 user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" textW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  86. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  87. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  88. 13/15 user-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typoW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  89. 14/15 user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updatesW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  90. 15/15 user-manual: Use --format=tar.gz to create a gzipped tarballW. Trevor King, Feb 10, 2013
  91. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  92. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  93. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  94. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  95. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  96. W. Trevor KingFeb 10, 2013
  97. Javier TiaFeb 9, 2013

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