Describe the bug in handling filenames with funny characters in 'git add -i'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-send-pack.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index 3271e88183e2b4c8551bb48caff54d3223991f79..777515b12e5e3b276285d3b034f91aab5c1e34cc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------

-'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+'git-send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]

 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------

-Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
+Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-push[1] which is a

 higher level wrapper of this command instead.
 
 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
 higher level wrapper of this command instead.
 
 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and


@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ OPTIONS
        Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
        update all heads that locally exist.
 
        Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
        update all heads that locally exist.
 

+\--dry-run::
+       Do everything except actually send the updates.
+

 \--force::
        Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
        is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
 \--force::
        Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
        is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.


@@ -82,7 +85,9 @@ Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
 and the destination side (after the colon).  The ref to be
 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
 and the destination side (after the colon).  The ref to be
 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the

-destination side.
+destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
+rules used by linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] to resolve a symbolic ref
+name.

 
  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
    local refs.
 
  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
    local refs.


@@ -120,4 +125,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 
 GIT
 ---
 
 GIT
 ---

-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite