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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 44fd146..b9e73f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over Git protocol to another repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] +'git send-pack' [--mirror] [--dry-run] [--force] + [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [--atomic] - [--[no-]signed|--signed=(true|false|if-asked)] - [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...] + [--[no-]signed | --signed=(true|false|if-asked)] + [<host>:]<directory> (--all | <ref>...) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. --force:: Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. - This flag disables the check. What this means is that + This flag disables the check. This means that the remote repository can lose commits; use it with care. @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ SPECIFYING THE REFS There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the remote end. -With `--all` flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to +With the `--all` flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use this flag. @@ -114,9 +115,9 @@ both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the command line or via `--stdin`), it can be either a -single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon +single pattern, or a pair of such patterns separated by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A -single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. +single pattern '<name>' is just shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be @@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the local refs. - - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs. + - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote ref. - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either @@ -142,9 +143,9 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an -ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", -is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the -remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. +ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as the "fast-forward check", +is performed to avoid accidentally overwriting the +remote ref and losing other people's commits from there. With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs. |