From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:49:53 GMT
Subject: Re: fast forward a branch from another
Message-ID: <7vfwojdfta.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DCC0A4F.7000800@cisco.com>

Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> writes:

> I don't see this feature listed in the git push [REMOTES] section.  Is
> it documented somewhere else?

Both "git help push" and "git help pull" will tell you in the "Git URLs"
section that a local file path is a way to name a repository.  Therefore,
you can say "git ls-remote $(pwd)" to list the the refs from the current
repository. If you are in git.git directory, "git ls-remote ../git.git"
does the same thing, so does "git ls-remote .".

These are merely specializations of more general "git push $path $refspec"
and nothing noteworthy.