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[PATCH] user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse

From
W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date
Feb 8, 2013, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID
<d1f3f900d4886dca727a2176b606e3b76ef9369e.1360343016.git.wking@tremily.us>
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>

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>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 5077e7c..8e55794 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1994,8 +1994,10 @@ 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!
+will not be updated by the push.  To protect against this, pushes to
+the currently checked-out branch of a repository are denied by
+default.  See the description of the 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
-- 
1.8.1.336.g94702dd
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  1. user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuseW. Trevor King, Feb 8, 2013

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