The comment in parentheses is wrong, as one has to leave out both the colon and <dst>. This situation is covered by the section a few lines down: A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source repository to the destination repository under the same name. So, just remove the parentheses. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-push.txt | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 8bfa7cb..6d3c711 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ tip of `master` branch); see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]) that you want to push. The <dst> side represents the destination location. + The local ref that matches <src> is used -to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst> (or, if no <dst> was -specified, the same ref that <src> referred to locally). If +to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>. If the optional leading plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward update. + -- 1.6.0.2.514.g23abd3 -- 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