Since commit f7673490 ("more terse push output", 2007-11-05), git push
has a completely different output format than the one shown in the user
manual for a non-fast-forward push.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I'd say it's "not very many read this and immediately tried it out" and
not "nobody read this for the last ten years".
Documentation/user-manual.txt | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index bc2929867..d3c53b513 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2044,10 +2044,12 @@ If a push would not result in a <<fast-forwards,fast-forward>> of the
remote branch, then it will fail with an error like:
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-error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not an ancestor of
- local 'refs/heads/master'.
- Maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?
-error: failed to push to 'ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git'
+ ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)
+error: failed to push some refs to '...'
+hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
+hint: its remote counterpart. Integrate the remote changes (e.g.
+hint: 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
+hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.
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This can happen, for example, if you:
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2.14.1.151.g45c1275a3.dirty
