From ae36bdcf5147b1b54de852eda111ad76a3040726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Prohaska Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:01:47 +0100 Subject: push: use same rules as git-rev-parse to resolve refspecs This commit changes the rules for resolving refspecs to match the rules for resolving refs in rev-parse. git-rev-parse uses clear rules to resolve a short ref to its full name, which are well documented. The rules for resolving refspecs documented in git-send-pack were less strict and harder to understand. This commit replaces them by the rules of git-rev-parse. The unified rules are easier to understand and better resolve ambiguous cases. You can now push from a repository containing several branches ending on the same short name. Note, this may break existing setups. For example, "master" will no longer resolve to "origin/master" even when there is no other "master" elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-send-pack.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 2fa01d4a3c..a2d9cb61be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the -destination side. +destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same +rules used by gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] to resolve a symbolic ref +name. - It is an error if does not match exactly one of the local refs. -- cgit v1.2.1