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* git push -f documentation
@ 2006-01-30  1:40 J. Bruce Fields
  2006-01-30  1:53 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2006-01-30  1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: git

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

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* Re: git push -f documentation
  2006-01-30  1:40 git push -f documentation J. Bruce Fields
@ 2006-01-30  1:53 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2006-01-30  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: J. Bruce Fields; +Cc: git

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> Surely the documentation here is exactly backwards?  Or am I
> missing something?--b.

Thanks.

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