From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:37:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] push: document --lockref
Message-ID: <7vfvvfdecb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130715044454.GA2962@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Now suppose my relay has some downtime.  That's fine --- I can still
> maintain the mirror by running the same commands on another machine.
> But when the old relay comes back up, "push --lockref" will fail and
> "pu" and "next" in my mirror are not updated any more.
>
> That is why I said that --force is more appropriate than --lockref
> for this application.

Sure.