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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 595b002152..e76c262d7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. --force:: Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. - This flag disables the check. What this means is that + This flag disables the check. This means that the remote repository can lose commits; use it with care. @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the command line or via `--stdin`), it can be either a single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A -single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. +single pattern '<name>' is just shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be @@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an -ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", -is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the -remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. +ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as the "fast-forward check", +is performed to avoid accidentally overwriting the +remote ref and losing other people's commits from there. With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs. |