From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git push -f documentation
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:40:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060130014050.GA18945@fieldses.org> (raw)
Surely the documentation here is exactly backwards? Or am I
missing something?--b.
---
Documentation/git-push.txt | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
1391326bf55bc9a9deb52a872671f29c70c0a4de
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 365cfd4..a0ef61d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
line.
-f, \--force::
- Usually, the command refuses to update a local ref that is
- not an ancestor of the remote ref used to overwrite it.
- This flag disables the check. What this means is that the
- local repository can lose commits; use it with care.
+ Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is
+ not a descendent of the local ref used to overwrite it.
+ This flag disables the check. This can cause the
+ remote repository to lose commits; use it with care.
Author
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0.99.8b.g3480-dirty
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2006-01-30 1:40 J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2006-01-30 1:53 ` git push -f documentation Junio C Hamano
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