Subject: Re: fast forward a branch from another

From: Phil Hord <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:26:55 -0400

On 05/12/2011 12:06 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
> Instead of switching to "stable", while still on the development, you
> could do
>
> 	$ git push . HEAD:stable
>
> which would succeed only when you are purely ahead of stable (otherwise it
> will fail as you are not forcing).
>

Wow!  Another gem. I didn't realize you could use 'dot' to refer to the
same repo you're in.

I don't see this feature listed in the git push [REMOTES] section.  Is
it documented somewhere else?

Phil