Documentation: mention branches rather than heads
authorAnders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:36:57 +0000 (15:36 +0100)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:27:52 +0000 (14:27 -0800)
The "matching refs" semantics works only on matching branches these days.
Instead of using "heads" which traditionally has been used more or less
interchangeably with "refs", say "branch" explicitly here.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-push.txt
index 6d3c711de6cfa07e2368249d9e37611fc4d761e6..a7a6f4cdefa8a0412f8031f8b788b66043c945ff 100644 (file)
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
 the remote repository.
 +
 The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast forward updates)
-directs git to push "matching" heads: for every head that exists on
-the local side, the remote side is updated if a head of the same name
+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).