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Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs
authorAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:13:38 +0000 (04:43 +0530)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:18:04 +0000 (23:18 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-push.txt

index 94d07ab8120d17d0667eeb8e420d4b2270ad7352..050c3ddae2732fdf4cb9f3b0f798e3d2d190fa4e 100644 (file)
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git push' [--all] [--dry-run] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
-           [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose] [<repository> <refspec>...]
+          [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose]
+          [<repository> <refspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ OPTIONS
        The "remote" repository that is destination of a push
        operation.  See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below.
 
-<refspec>::
-       The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is
+<refspec>...::
+       The canonical format of each <refspec> parameter is
        `+?<src>:<dst>`; that is, an optional plus `+`, followed
        by the source ref, followed by a colon `:`, followed by
        the destination ref.
@@ -180,11 +181,11 @@ 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.
+git push origin master:satellite/master dev:satellite/dev::
+       Use the source ref that matches `master` (e.g. `refs/heads/master`)
+       to update the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most probably
+       `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in the `origin` repository, then
+       do the same for `dev` and `satellite/dev`.
 
 git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental::
        Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository