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
 --------
-'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
+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
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ OPTIONS
        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.
@@ -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 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.
@@ -120,4 +125,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite