git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index 205bfd2d259abd33873305d28281166a42285f6e..399821832c2a5cd6a718a7dc37a87e6b5bc0b213 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
 
 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
 -----------
-Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
-higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+Usually you would want to use 'git-push', which is a
+higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
 
 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
@@ -21,30 +21,33 @@ updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-\--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
+--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>::
+--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
        Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
 
-\--all::
+--all::
        Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
-       update all refs that locally exist.
+       update all heads that locally exist.
 
-\--force::
+--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.
        This flag disables the check.  What this means is that
        the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
        care.
 
-\--verbose::
+--verbose::
        Run verbosely.
 
-\--thin::
+--thin::
        Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
        Use it on slower connection.
 
@@ -70,7 +73,7 @@ With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
 the remote side.  You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
 this flag.
 
-Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the refs that exist
+Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
 
 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a
@@ -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
-destination side.
+destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
+rules used by 'git-rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
+name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
  - 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
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite