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* ph/push-doc-cas: git-push.txt: clean up force-with-lease wording
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Documentation/git-push.txt

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Usually, "git push" refuses to update a remote ref that is
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not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
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This option bypasses the check, but instead requires that the
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current value of the ref to be the expected value. "git push"
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fails otherwise.
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This option overrides this restriction if the current value of the
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remote ref is the expected value. "git push" fails otherwise.
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Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published.
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You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to
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This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are
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updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref
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still points at the commit you specified, you can be sure that no
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other people did anything to the ref (it is like taking a "lease" on
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the ref without explicitly locking it, and you update the ref while
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making sure that your earlier "lease" is still valid).
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other people did anything to the ref. It is like taking a "lease" on
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the ref without explicitly locking it, and the remote ref is updated
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only if the "lease" is still valid.
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`--force-with-lease` alone, without specifying the details, will protect
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all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their
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current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have
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for them, unless specified with a `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>`
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option that explicitly states what the expected value is.
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for them.
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`--force-with-lease=<refname>`, without specifying the expected value, will
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protect the named ref (alone), if it is going to be updated, by

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