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There's complex rules governing whether a push is allowed to take place depending on whether we're pushing to refs/heads/*, refs/tags/* or refs/not-that/*. See is_branch() in refs.c, and the various assertions in refs/files-backend.c. (e.g. "trying to write non-commit object %s to branch '%s'"). This documentation has never been quite correct, but went downhill afterdbfeddb12e("push: require force for refs under refs/tags/", 2012-11-29) when we started claiming that <dst> couldn't be a tag object, which is incorrect. After some of the logic in that patch was changed in256b9d70a4("push: fix "refs/tags/ hierarchy cannot be updated without --force"", 2013-01-16) the docs weren't updated, and we've had some version of documentation that confused whether <src> was a tag or not with whether <dst> would accept either an annotated tag object or the commit it points to. This makes the intro somewhat more verbose & complex, perhaps we should have a shorter description here and split the full complexity into a dedicated section. Very few users will find themselves needing to e.g. push blobs or trees to refs/custom-namespace/* (or blobs or trees at all), and that could be covered separately as an advanced topic. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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gitrevisions(7)
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===============
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NAME
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----
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gitrevisions - Specifying revisions and ranges for Git
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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gitrevisions
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Many Git commands take revision parameters as arguments. Depending on
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the command, they denote a specific commit or, for commands which
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walk the revision graph (such as linkgit:git-log[1]), all commits which are
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reachable from that commit. For commands that walk the revision graph one can
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also specify a range of revisions explicitly.
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In addition, some Git commands (such as linkgit:git-show[1] and
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linkgit:git-push[1]) can also take revision parameters which denote
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other objects than commits, e.g. blobs ("files") or trees
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("directories of files").
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include::revisions.txt[]
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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