# [PATCH] git-push: Update documentation to describe the no-refspec behavior.

1 messages from 2006-02-22 to 2006-02-22. Participants: Carl Worth.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3433

## Carl Worth, 2006-02-22 04:28

Subject: [PATCH] git-push: Update documentation to describe the no-refspec behavior.
Message-ID: <87k6borp8d.wl%cworth@cworth.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87k6borp8d.wl%25cworth%40cworth.org

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It 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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 Documentation/git-push.txt |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

a42f22171f6f3004e524b45b16a9c5cf0386ccf3
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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1.2.2.gfdc0


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