Documentation/git-send-pack.txt

   1 git-send-pack(1)
   2 ================
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
  16 higher level wrapper of this command instead.
  17
  18 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
  19 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
  20
  21
  22 OPTIONS
  23 -------
  24 \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
  25         Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
  26         end.  Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
  27         repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
  28         a directory on the default $PATH.
  29
  30 \--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
  31         Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
  32
  33 \--all::
  34         Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
  35         update all heads that locally exist.
  36
  37 \--dry-run::
  38         Do everything except actually send the updates.
  39
  40 \--force::
  41         Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
  42         is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
  43         This flag disables the check.  What this means is that
  44         the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
  45         care.
  46
  47 \--verbose::
  48         Run verbosely.
  49
  50 \--thin::
  51         Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
  52         Use it on slower connection.
  53
  54 <host>::
  55         A remote host to house the repository.  When this
  56         part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
  57         ssh.
  58
  59 <directory>::
  60         The repository to update.
  61
  62 <ref>...::
  63         The remote refs to update.
  64
  65
  66 Specifying the Refs
  67 -------------------
  68
  69 There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
  70 remote end.
  71
  72 With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
  73 the remote side.  You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
  74 this flag.
  75
  76 Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
  77 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
  78
  79 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a
  80 single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
  81 ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it).  A
  82 single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
  83
  84 Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
  85 and the destination side (after the colon).  The ref to be
  86 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
  87 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
  88 destination side.
  89
  90  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
  91    local refs.
  92
  93  - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.
  94
  95  - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
  96
  97    * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
  98      destination literally in this case.
  99
 100    * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
 101      exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
 102      locally is used as the name of the destination.
 103
 104 Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
 105 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
 106 ancestor) of <src>.  This check, known as "fast forward check",
 107 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
 108 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
 109
 110 With '--force', the fast forward check is disabled for all refs.
 111
 112 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
 113 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
 114
 115
 116 Author
 117 ------
 118 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 119
 120 Documentation
 121 --------------
 122 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 123
 124 GIT
 125 ---
 126 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite