From 3856d8937817c6815ecabaa3a927fc2e124e8155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 18:58:49 +0000
Subject: doc: git-push: clarify "where to push"

It's not obvious that "`branch.*.remote` configuration"` refers to the
upstream, so say "upstream" instead.

The sentence is also quite hard to parse right now, use "defaults to" to
simplify it.

Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-push.adoc | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Documentation/git-push.adoc')

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.adoc b/Documentation/git-push.adoc
index 2b7f7de9dd..808e0380b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.adoc
@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ Updates one or more branches, tags, or other references in a remote
 repository from your local repository, and sends all necessary data
 that isn't already on the remote.
 
-When the command line does not specify where to push with the
-`<repository>` argument, `branch.*.remote` configuration for the
-current branch is consulted to determine where to push.  If the
-configuration is missing, it defaults to 'origin'.
+The `<repository>` argument defaults to the upstream for the current branch,
+or `origin` if there's no configured upstream.
 
 When the command line does not specify what to push with `<refspec>...`
 arguments or `--all`, `--mirror`, `--tags` options, the command finds
-- 
cgit v1.3-5-g9baa

