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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-06 15:37:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-06 15:37:42 -0700 |
| commit | 4d9e42f8f11c57b32b976a943c8ddaf6214e64b8 (patch) | |
| tree | f1aee1490288aa30fb62a981696389d9b5e3e992 /Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | |
| parent | c5bcf1f9f6d3429ab9a09e07e28362e7d189005b (diff) | |
| parent | ea02eef096d4bfcbb83e76cfab0fcb42dbcad35e (diff) | |
| download | git-4d9e42f8f11c57b32b976a943c8ddaf6214e64b8.tar.gz | |
Merge commit 'v1.6.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix
* commit 'v1.6.0': (2063 commits)
GIT 1.6.0
git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit
Improve error output of git-rebase
t9300: replace '!' with test_must_fail
Git.pm: Make File::Spec and File::Temp requirement lazy
Documentation: document the pager.* configuration setting
git-stash: improve synopsis in help and manual page
Makefile: building git in cygwin 1.7.0
git-am: ignore --binary option
bash-completion: Add non-command git help files to bash-completion
Fix t3700 on filesystems which do not support question marks in names
Utilise our new p4_read_pipe and p4_write_pipe wrappers
Add p4 read_pipe and write_pipe wrappers
bash completion: Add '--merge' long option for 'git log'
bash completion: Add completion for 'git mergetool'
git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
bash completion: 'git apply' should use 'fix' not 'strip'
t5304-prune: adjust file mtime based on system time rather than file mtime
test-parse-options: use appropriate cast in length_callback
Fix escaping of glob special characters in pathspecs
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Conflicts:
builtin-checkout.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-update-ref.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index 4dc475992e..9639f705af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) +'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) DESCRIPTION ----------- Given two arguments, stores the <newvalue> in the <ref>, possibly -dereferencing the symbolic refs. E.g. `git-update-ref HEAD +dereferencing the symbolic refs. E.g. `git update-ref HEAD <newvalue>` updates the current branch head to the new object. Given three arguments, stores the <newvalue> in the <ref>, possibly dereferencing the symbolic refs, after verifying that the current value of the <ref> matches <oldvalue>. -E.g. `git-update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>` +E.g. `git update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>` updates the master branch head to <newvalue> only if its current value is <oldvalue>. You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string as <oldvalue> to make sure that the ref you are creating does @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ the result of following the symbolic pointers. In general, using - git-update-ref HEAD "$head" + git update-ref HEAD "$head" should be a _lot_ safer than doing @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ still contains <oldvalue>. Logging Updates --------------- If config parameter "core.logAllRefUpdates" is true or the file -"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" exists then `git-update-ref` will append +"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" exists then `git update-ref` will append a line to the log file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" (dereferencing all symbolic refs before creating the log name) describing the change in ref value. Log lines are formatted as: @@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>. GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |