Merge branch 'js/maint-1.6.0-exec-path-env' into maint

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
index a70c7168f60f8cbb6666a34334114e2759424ccd..514f03c97903aa0be41a4a8f0df236ccb68280b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-receive-pack - Receive what is pushed into the repository
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-receive-pack' <directory>
+'git receive-pack' <directory>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ information fed from the remote end.
 This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user.
 The UI for the protocol is on the 'git-send-pack' side, and the
 program pair is meant to be used to push updates to remote
-repository.  For pull operations, see 'git-fetch-pack'.
+repository.  For pull operations, see linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1].
 
 The command allows for creation and fast forwarding of sha1 refs
 (heads/tags) on the remote end (strictly speaking, it is the
-local end receive-pack runs, but to the user who is sitting at
+local end 'git-receive-pack' runs, but to the user who is sitting at
 the send-pack end, it is updating the remote.  Confused?)
 
 There are other real-world examples of using update and
 post-update hooks found in the Documentation/howto directory.
 
-git-receive-pack honours the receive.denyNonFastForwards config
+'git-receive-pack' honours the receive.denyNonFastForwards config
 option, which tells it if updates to a ref should be denied if they
 are not fast-forwards.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ post-receive Hook
 -----------------
 After all refs were updated (or attempted to be updated), if any
 ref update was successful, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
-file exists and is executable, it will be invoke once with no
+file exists and is executable, it will be invoked once with no
 parameters.  The standard input of the hook will be one line
 for each successfully updated ref:
 
@@ -111,10 +111,10 @@ ref listing the commits pushed to the repository:
                if expr "$oval" : '0*$' >/dev/null
                then
                        echo "Created a new ref, with the following commits:"
-                       git-rev-list --pretty "$nval"
+                       git rev-list --pretty "$nval"
                else
                        echo "New commits:"
-                       git-rev-list --pretty "$nval" "^$oval"
+                       git rev-list --pretty "$nval" "^$oval"
                fi |
                mail -s "Changes to ref $ref" commit-list@mydomain
        done
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ non-zero exit code will generate an error message.
 
 Note that it is possible for refname to not have sha1-new when this
 hook runs.  This can easily occur if another user modifies the ref
-after it was updated by receive-pack, but before the hook was able
+after it was updated by 'git-receive-pack', but before the hook was able
 to evaluate it.  It is recommended that hooks rely on sha1-new
 rather than the current value of refname.
 
@@ -133,18 +133,18 @@ post-update Hook
 ----------------
 After all other processing, if at least one ref was updated, and
 if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update file exists and is executable, then
-post-update will called with the list of refs that have been updated.
+post-update will be called with the list of refs that have been updated.
 This can be used to implement any repository wide cleanup tasks.
 
 The exit code from this hook invocation is ignored; the only thing
-left for git-receive-pack to do at that point is to exit itself
+left for 'git-receive-pack' to do at that point is to exit itself
 anyway.
 
-This hook can be used, for example, to run "git-update-server-info"
+This hook can be used, for example, to run `git update-server-info`
 if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport.
 
        #!/bin/sh
-       exec git-update-server-info
+       exec git update-server-info
 
 
 SEE ALSO