From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: git push -f documentation Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:40:50 -0500 Message-ID: <20060130014050.GA18945@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 30 02:41:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3O2V-0001i3-Qp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:41:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750950AbWA3Bkw (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:40:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751222AbWA3Bkw (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:40:52 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:24768 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950AbWA3Bkw (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:40:52 -0500 Received: from bfields by pickle.fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F3O2E-0006ws-Ba; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:40:50 -0500 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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