From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Wookey Subject: Re: Newbie / git / gitosis question Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:38:35 +1000 Message-ID: References: <26ae428a0908260227k7ac6aeden9a4eae7ee95d4d45@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Howard Miller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 26 11:47:16 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 1MgF62-0001Tr-4E for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:47:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756598AbZHZJqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:46:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756551AbZHZJqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:46:36 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.240]:56100 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756518AbZHZJqf (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:46:35 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so6182197and.1 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:46:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sdzC7cAf/ESYSne2dFYFBnk2W397zqkWNNQ8S5CaXU0=; b=uM18dt7/hvIuqb0Fgo0rM441dpUlInhivDOcCEgAoqxzflaZTOSKS0wPgcTVDuQt/L v7hckrf0vniaR/gpAeSEZDYMXgMTg0eUN/vQQa6R20HEiVID7jIDxDEHOYvAjr02tK9w dVT145FJy+t/rHW/Fruk9jmg+M5CVWFYAeT4A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=V7ZhLES1pxh2NZJ3HCvKgU/gbA+KJhwusl2LlYkBbZsYSJzeI8JGqH5J6VGaOvXhq4 XtZKgmu+a1AM0XEDJ22KnANwGjWXS63d/nmSVWH8iRQXTRheFLEjZ1TEZDovPUptRyqM UkS9kuPeGjl9vwsp2jxNEW+7gBimr5LcoUbWM= Received: by 10.101.98.9 with SMTP id a9mr7381944anm.160.1251279535150; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:38:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <26ae428a0908260227k7ac6aeden9a4eae7ee95d4d45@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/8/26 Howard Miller : > 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. You might find some insight here - http://progit.org/book/ch9-5.html