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authorJean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>2021-11-06 19:48:56 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-11-09 09:39:11 -0800
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doc: git-http-push: describe the refs as pattern pairs
Each member of the pair is explained but they are not defined beforehand. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -63,16 +63,15 @@ of such patterns separated by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name
cannot have a colon in it). A single pattern '<name>' is just a
shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
-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.
+Each pattern pair '<src>:<dst>' 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.
- - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
+ - It is an error if '<src>' does not match exactly one of the
local refs.
- - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
+ - If '<dst>' does not match any remote ref, either
* it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
destination literally in this case.