diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.adoc b/Documentation/git-push.adoc
index 5f5408e2c0..2b7f7de9dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.adoc
@@ -19,12 +19,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects
-necessary to complete the given refs.
-
-You can make interesting things happen to a repository
-every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there.  See
-documentation for linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].
+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
@@ -44,6 +41,10 @@ corresponding upstream branch, but as a safety measure, the push is
 aborted if the upstream branch does not have the same name as the
 local one.
 
+You can make interesting things happen to a repository
+every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there.  See
+documentation for linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].
+
 
 OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
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