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From: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] documentation: update the "Pushing changes to a public  repository" section
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:45:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4df72b1a1002190845o2cbde92btb8804e2467ffda51@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Extracted from git v1.7.0 Release Notes:

* "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed at by
   HEAD in a repository that is not bare) is refused by default.

Update the user manual where necessary
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index fe6fb72..0897839 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1963,10 +1963,14 @@ As with `git fetch`, `git push` will complain
if this does not result in a
 handling this case.

 Note that the target of a "push" is normally a
-<<def_bare_repository,bare>> repository.  You can also push to a
-repository that has a checked-out working tree, but the working tree
-will not be updated by the push.  This may lead to unexpected results if
-the branch you push to is the currently checked-out branch!
+<<def_bare_repository,bare>> repository.  Until the version 1.7 you could
+also push to a repository that has a checked-out working tree,
+but the working tree will not be updated by the push.  This might lead to
+unexpected results if the branch you pushed to was the currently checked-out
+branch! From 1.7.0 git push" into a branch that is currently checked out
+(i.e. pointed at by   HEAD in a repository that is not bare)
+is refused by default.
+

 As with `git fetch`, you may also set up configuration options to
 save typing; so, for example, after
--
1.6.6

             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19 16:45 Elia Pinto [this message]
2010-02-19 23:09 ` [PATCH] documentation: update the "Pushing changes to a public repository" section Santi Béjar

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