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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, philipoakley@iee.org, artagnon@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-push.txt: explain better cases where --force is dangerous
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:42:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq38sfx3ty.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7ghsbeoo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:38:47 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:


> After I re-read the one, I found that "override" somewhat a strange
> expression.  There is nothing that overrides or to be overriden.

Right, I actually meant "overwrite".

> How about putting it like this?

I'm not sure "push out refs other than the current branch" is strong
enough. Once you are used to "push = fast-forward = can't loose data",
"push out a ref" is not very scary.

I'd do s/push out/overwrite/, but I'm fine with your version too.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-17 17:52 [PATCH] Documentation/git-push.txt: explain better cases where --force is dangerous Matthieu Moy
2013-06-17 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-17 21:09 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-06-17 21:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-18  7:42     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-06-18 14:35       ` Junio C Hamano

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