Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 19935:4f53de036af8
push: add more detailed explanation about "--force" to online help document
This patch adds more detailed explanation about "--force" to online
help document of "hg push" to prevent novice users to execute "push
--force" easily without understanding about problems of multiple
branch heads in the repository.
| author | FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:16:06 +0900 |
| parents | bfc6ed892349 |
| children | 8179eb28983b |
| files | mercurial/commands.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/commands.py Thu Oct 03 23:16:06 2013 +0900 +++ b/mercurial/commands.py Thu Oct 03 23:16:06 2013 +0900 @@ -4651,8 +4651,10 @@ branch that is not present at the destination. This allows you to only create a new branch without forcing other changes. - Use -f/--force to override the default behavior and push all - changesets on all branches. + .. note:: + Extra care should be used with the -f/--force option, + which will push all new heads on all branches, an action which will + almost always cause confusion for collaborators. If -r/--rev is used, the specified revision and all its ancestors will be pushed to the remote repository.