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authorMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2015-08-03 11:56:31 +0200
committerMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2015-08-03 19:33:46 +0200
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doc/git-howto: Replace "git push" example by one with dry-run
I do not think having "git push" as example is a good idea. The command has a very high chance of pushing things which are unwanted to be pushed Reviewed-by: Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos@ag.or.at> Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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@section Pushing changes to remote trees
@example
-git push
+git push origin master --dry-run
@end example
-Will push the changes to the default remote (@var{origin}).
+Will simulate a push of the local master branch to the default remote
+(@var{origin}). And list which branches and ranges or commits would have been
+pushed.
Git will prevent you from pushing changes if the local and remote trees are
out of sync. Refer to @ref{Updating the source tree to the latest revision}.