@@ -149,9 +149,8 @@ already exists on the remote side.
149149 Usually, "git push" refuses to update a remote ref that is
150150 not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
151151+
152- This option bypasses the check, but instead requires that the
153- current value of the ref to be the expected value. "git push"
154- fails otherwise.
152+ This option overrides this restriction if the current value of the
153+ remote ref is the expected value. "git push" fails otherwise.
155154+
156155Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published.
157156You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to
@@ -163,15 +162,14 @@ commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work.
163162This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are
164163updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref
165164still points at the commit you specified, you can be sure that no
166- other people did anything to the ref (it is like taking a "lease" on
167- the ref without explicitly locking it, and you update the ref while
168- making sure that your earlier "lease" is still valid) .
165+ other people did anything to the ref. It is like taking a "lease" on
166+ the ref without explicitly locking it, and the remote ref is updated
167+ only if the "lease" is still valid.
169168+
170169`--force-with-lease` alone, without specifying the details, will protect
171170all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their
172171current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have
173- for them, unless specified with a `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>`
174- option that explicitly states what the expected value is.
172+ for them.
175173+
176174`--force-with-lease=<refname>`, without specifying the expected value, will
177175protect the named ref (alone), if it is going to be updated, by
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