SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-push' [--all] [--force] <repository> <refspec>...
+'git-push' [--all] [--tags] [--force] <repository> <refspec>...
DESCRIPTION
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Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects
necessary to complete the given refs.
+You can make interesting things happen to a repository
+every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there. See
+documentation for gitlink:git-receive-pack[1].
+
OPTIONS
-------
-include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
+<repository>::
+ The "remote" repository that is destination of a push
+ operation. See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below.
+
+<refspec>::
+ The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is
+ `+?<src>:<dst>`; that is, an optional plus `+`, followed
+ by the source ref, followed by a colon `:`, followed by
+ the destination ref.
++
+The <src> side can be an
+arbitrary "SHA1 expression" that can be used as an
+argument to `git-cat-file -t`. E.g. `master~4` (push
+four parents before the current master head).
++
+The local ref that matches <src> is used
+to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>. If
+the optional plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated
+even if it does not result in a fast forward update.
++
+Note: 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), then all the
+refs that exist both on the local side and on the remote
+side are updated.
++
+Some short-cut notations are also supported.
++
+* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
+* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
+ <ref>`:`<ref>, hence updates <ref> in the destination from <ref>
+ in the source.
\--all::
- Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies all refs
- to be pushed.
+ Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all
+ refs be pushed.
+
+\--tags::
+ All refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are pushed, in
+ addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command
+ line.
-f, \--force::
- Usually, the command refuses to update a local ref that is
- not an ancestor of the remote ref used to overwrite it.
- This flag disables the check. What this means is that the
- local repository can lose commits; use it with care.
+ Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is
+ not a descendent of the local ref used to overwrite it.
+ This flag disables the check. This can cause the
+ remote repository to lose commits; use it with care.
+
+include::urls.txt[]
Author
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