Merge branch 'mk/maint-parse-careful'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index 9e67f1730261a20ffa8c22b682c9207856901534..777515b12e5e3b276285d3b034f91aab5c1e34cc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -3,38 +3,54 @@ git-send-pack(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed
+git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+'git-send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-push[1] which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+
 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
 
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---exec=<git-receive-pack>::
+\--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
        Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
        end.  Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
        repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
        a directory on the default $PATH.
 
---all::
+\--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
+       Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
+
+\--all::
        Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
-       update all refs that locally exist.
+       update all heads that locally exist.
+
+\--dry-run::
+       Do everything except actually send the updates.
 
---force::
+\--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
        the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
        care.
 
+\--verbose::
+       Run verbosely.
+
+\--thin::
+       Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
+       Use it on slower connection.
+
 <host>::
        A remote host to house the repository.  When this
        part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
@@ -43,7 +59,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <directory>::
        The repository to update.
 
-<ref>...:
+<ref>...::
        The remote refs to update.
 
 
@@ -57,7 +73,7 @@ With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
 the remote side.  You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
 this flag.
 
-Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the refs that exist
+Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
 
 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a
@@ -69,7 +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 linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] to resolve a symbolic ref
+name.
 
  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
    local refs.
@@ -107,4 +125,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite