From: "W. Trevor King" <wk...@tremily.us> This mirrors existing language in the description of 'git fetch'.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index dbffd0a..ba06b7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2051,6 +2051,13 @@ branch name with a plus sign: $ git push ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git +master ------------------------------------------------- +Note the addition of the `+` sign. Alternatively, you can use the +`-f` flag to force the remote update, as in: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ git push -f ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git master +------------------------------------------------- + Normally whenever a branch head in a public repository is modified, it is modified to point to a descendant of the commit that it pointed to before. By forcing a push in this situation, you break that convention. -- 1.8.1.336.g94702dd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
