Carl WorthIt turns out that the git-push documentation didn't describe what it would do when not given a refspec, (not on the command line, nor in a remotes file). This is fairly important for the user who is trying to understand operations such as:
git clone git://something/some/where # hack, hack, hack git push origin
I tracked the mystery behavior down to git-send-pack and lifted the relevant portion of its documentation up to git-push, (namely that all refs existing both locally and remotely are updated).
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 5b89110..6f4a48a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ to fast forward the remote ref that matc the optional plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward update. + +Note: If no explicit refspec is found, (that is neither +on the command line nor in any Push line of the +corresponding remotes file---see below), then all the +refs that exist both on the local side and on the remote +side are updated. ++ Some short-cut notations are also supported. + * `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
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