From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Howard Miller Subject: Newbie / git / gitosis question Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:27:30 +0100 Message-ID: <26ae428a0908260227k7ac6aeden9a4eae7ee95d4d45@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 26 11:28:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MgEnR-0001m7-Lc for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:28:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756490AbZHZJ1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:27:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756459AbZHZJ1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:27:30 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com ([209.85.219.206]:64481 "EHLO mail-ew0-f206.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756289AbZHZJ13 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:27:29 -0400 Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so1205138ewy.17 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:27:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ndNVJyBpc1jEH+VWlNqKAgOWh25RxyFCETeP6pl5ZYM=; b=Kv4NF+thFuSdHyrMQhqp2wYzac5xUC6EGAhs1XhH3i0qyLjj+6YKCeClN4EHvXmJDp keFGSSSb7JV1hlJ9bliGA++P62LPA2xjpIg9hq51qnvbQtl63ihbmhp0V7qN3a1M2j95 UKSpvinUizD1HieO8QtVpyvgx/IFTPyjOLBnk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fAqom8gVOMfgcq2YBznEY9Xlj0LyQ/j0de3IglTnn7lJT1ns8IcpoqlObwM05LN4I5 OmPXCvOX/2xhBbhRYv4v6BLeJP5KcXU2Nr9W43ylD52Nb3dMLl6GFcmktoOY26i6uNah AYnDp15fOfWyQ/T43l0X6BRWQI2IjNq1AZsg8= Received: by 10.216.90.212 with SMTP id e62mr1598725wef.26.1251278850462; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:27:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: b63aa3130b0fc9f8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've been working away at Gitosis and it's mostly fair enough but there's one bit that's unclear to me... git push origin master:refs/heads/master Would somebody kindly explain (or point to docs) what refs/heads/master means? How is this different from just 'git push origin master' or even 'git push origin master:master'? Any insights much appreciated.