From: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:38:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie / git / gitosis question
Message-ID: <d2e97e800908260238p28bd6d27o6377f395df32b03c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <26ae428a0908260227k7ac6aeden9a4eae7ee95d4d45@mail.gmail.com>

2009/8/26 Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>:
> I've been working away at Gitosis and it's mostly fair enough but
> there's one bit that's unclear to me...
>
> git push origin master:refs/heads/master
>
> Would somebody kindly explain (or point to docs) what
> refs/heads/master means? How is this different from just 'git push
> origin master' or even 'git push origin master:master'?
>
> Any insights much appreciated.

You might find some insight here - http://progit.org/book/ch9-5.html