doc: git-push: clarify "where to push"
It's not obvious that "`branch.*.remote` configuration"` refers to the upstream, so say "upstream" instead. The sentence is also quite hard to parse right now, use "defaults to" to simplify it. Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans committed
Oct 6, 2025 at 18:58 UTC
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@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ Updates one or more branches, tags, or other references in a remote
repository from your local repository, and sends all necessary data
that isn't already on the remote.
-When the command line does not specify where to push with the
-`<repository>` argument, `branch.*.remote` configuration for the
-current branch is consulted to determine where to push. If the
-configuration is missing, it defaults to 'origin'.
+The `<repository>` argument defaults to the upstream for the current branch,
+or `origin` if there's no configured upstream.
When the command line does not specify what to push with `<refspec>...`
arguments or `--all`, `--mirror`, `--tags` options, the command finds