The context of the example to push into refs/remotes/satellite/ hierarchy of the other repository needs to be spelled out explicitly for the value of this example to be fully appreciated. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Brandon Casey <bcasey@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> So refs are correct. The context is not sufficiently explained. > > Ah, I see. Yeah, I think that is complex enough to merit an > extended explanation. Something like this? Documentation/git-push.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git c/Documentation/git-push.txt w/Documentation/git-push.txt index 6d19d59..8b637d3 100644 --- c/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ w/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -385,11 +385,23 @@ the ones in the examples below) can be configured as the default for A handy way to push the current branch to the same name on the remote. -`git push origin master:satellite/master dev:satellite/dev`:: +`git push mothership 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 + `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in the `mothership` repository; do the same for `dev` and `satellite/dev`. ++ +This is to emulate `git fetch` run on the `mothership` using `git +push` that is run in the opposite direction in order to integrate +the work done on `satellite`, and is often necessary when you can +only make connection in one way (i.e. satellite can ssh into +mothership but mothership cannot initiate connection to satellite +because the latter is behind a firewall or does not run sshd). ++ +After running this `git push` on the `satellite` machine, you would +ssh into the `mothership` and run `git merge` there to complete the +emulation of `git pull` that were run on `mothership` to pull changes +made on `satellite`. `git push origin HEAD:master`:: Push the current branch to the remote ref matching `master` in the -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html