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[git.git] / Documentation / git-push.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 3e8dbcf93a8d39dc397ba0468f9005fad60ecd44..665f6dc709207725daa9e7dd81d150a9aac0f7cb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-push' [--all] [--tags] [--exec=<receive-pack>] [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v] [<repository> <refspec>...]
+[verse]
+'git-push' [--all] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
+           [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v] [<repository> <refspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -51,9 +53,8 @@ side are updated.
 +
 `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
 +
-A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
-<ref>`:`<ref>, hence updates <ref> in the destination from <ref>
-in the source.
+A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source
+repository to the destination repository under the same name.
 +
 Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
 the remote repository.
@@ -67,12 +68,15 @@ the remote repository.
        addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command
        line.
 
-\--exec::
+\--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
        Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
        end.  Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
        repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
        a directory on the default $PATH.
 
+\--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
+       Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
+
 -f, \--force::
        Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is
        not a descendant of the local ref used to overwrite it.
@@ -93,6 +97,26 @@ the remote repository.
 
 include::urls.txt[]
 
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+git push origin master::
+       Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
+       (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
+       the same ref (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) in `origin` repository
+       with it.
+
+git push origin :experimental::
+       Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository
+       (e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it.
+
+git push origin master:satellite/master::
+       Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
+       (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
+       the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most likely, it would
+       be `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in `origin` repository with it.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, later rewritten in C
@@ -105,4 +129,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-