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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] push: document --lockref
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:37:08 -0700
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Now suppose my relay has some downtime.  That's fine --- I can still
> maintain the mirror by running the same commands on another machine.
> But when the old relay comes back up, "push --lockref" will fail and
> "pu" and "next" in my mirror are not updated any more.
>
> That is why I said that --force is more appropriate than --lockref
> for this application.

Sure.