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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
-- 
0.99.8b.g3480-dirty

             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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