On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:03, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Though I'm not really happy using "updates" when + is specified in the push > refspec. What, precisely, is a "non-fast forward update" anyway? Is it > essentially a rebase? If so, maybe "rebases onto remote " would be better > (again with a trailing space to get nice alignment). A non-fast forward update in terms of pushing means you overwrite whatever the remote currently has set as that branch's head. This can be desirable in a private repository or branch, but is usually not desired on shared branches. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- 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