Merge branch 'jk/fast-export-object-lookup'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 13980257eecd3e275641c1ba3262f4d4489f77ff..eb2883c94cfad91efcc1f70bbdbc1609a3702d3b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
+'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
           [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] [-u | --set-upstream]
           [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
 
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ You can make interesting things happen to a repository
 every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there.  See
 documentation for linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].
 
+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'.
+
+When the command line does not specify what to push with `<refspec>...`
+arguments or `--all`, `--mirror`, `--tags` options, the command finds
+the default `<refspec>` by consulting `remote.*.push` configuration,
+and if it is not found, honors `push.default` configuration to decide
+what to push (See gitlink:git-config[1] for the meaning of `push.default`).
+
 
 OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
 ------------------
@@ -33,13 +44,10 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
        of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below).
 
 <refspec>...::
+       Specify what destination ref to update with what source object.
        The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus
-       `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
+       `+`, followed by the source object <src>, followed
        by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
-       It is used to specify with what <src> object the <dst> ref
-       in the remote repository is to be updated.  If not specified,
-       the behavior of the command is controlled by the `push.default`
-       configuration variable.
 +
 The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but
 it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or
@@ -66,10 +74,7 @@ the remote repository.
 The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast-forward updates)
 directs Git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on
 the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name
-already exists on the remote side.  This is the default operation mode
-if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line
-nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below) and
-no `push.default` configuration variable is set.
+already exists on the remote side.
 
 --all::
        Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all
@@ -112,6 +117,12 @@ no `push.default` configuration variable is set.
        addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command
        line.
 
+--follow-tags::
+       Push all the refs that would be pushed without this option,
+       and also push annotated tags in `refs/tags` that are missing
+       from the remote but are pointing at committish that are
+       reachable from the refs being pushed.
+
 --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
 --exec=<git-receive-pack>::
        Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote