parse-options: add parse_options_concat() to concat options

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
index e062030e91ae2b2a25c2ef7bafc4c026015e1f5e..9639f705afafab6fcf0cd21ad2693627ab42f66d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
@@ -3,24 +3,26 @@ git-update-ref(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-update-ref - update the object name stored in a ref safely
+git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] <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>.
+value is <oldvalue>.  You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string
+as <oldvalue> to make sure that the ref you are creating does
+not exist.
 
 It also allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another
 ref file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of
@@ -34,9 +36,12 @@ them and update them as a regular file (i.e. it will allow the
 filesystem to follow them, but will overwrite such a symlink to
 somewhere else with a regular filename).
 
+If --no-deref is given, <ref> itself is overwritten, rather than
+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
 
@@ -49,10 +54,14 @@ for reading but not for writing (so we'll never write through a
 ref symlink to some other tree, if you have copied a whole
 archive by creating a symlink tree).
 
+With `-d` flag, it deletes the named <ref> after verifying it
+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:
@@ -81,4 +90,4 @@ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite