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1 | git-send-pack(1) |
2 | ================ | |
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3 | |
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
3dff5379 | 6 | git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository |
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7 | |
8 | ||
9 | SYNOPSIS | |
10 | -------- | |
b1889c36 | 11 | 'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...] |
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13 | DESCRIPTION | |
14 | ----------- | |
0b444cdb | 15 | Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a |
483bc4f0 | 16 | higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1]. |
5cb545fa | 17 | |
ba020ef5 | 18 | Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and |
ab9b3138 | 19 | updates it from the current repository, sending named refs. |
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20 | |
21 | ||
22 | OPTIONS | |
23 | ------- | |
3240240f | 24 | --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: |
ba020ef5 | 25 | Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote |
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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 | ||
3240240f | 30 | --exec=<git-receive-pack>:: |
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31 | Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>. |
32 | ||
3240240f | 33 | --all:: |
9553d20b | 34 | Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, |
5c633a4c | 35 | update all heads that locally exist. |
9553d20b | 36 | |
3240240f | 37 | --dry-run:: |
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38 | Do everything except actually send the updates. |
39 | ||
3240240f | 40 | --force:: |
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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 | ||
3240240f | 47 | --verbose:: |
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48 | Run verbosely. |
49 | ||
3240240f | 50 | --thin:: |
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51 | Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based |
52 | on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. | |
18bd8821 | 53 | |
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54 | <host>:: |
55 | A remote host to house the repository. When this | |
ba020ef5 | 56 | part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via |
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57 | ssh. |
58 | ||
59 | <directory>:: | |
60 | The repository to update. | |
61 | ||
23bed43d | 62 | <ref>...:: |
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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 | ||
abda1ef5 | 72 | With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to |
ab9b3138 | 73 | the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use |
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74 | this flag. |
75 | ||
5c633a4c | 76 | Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist |
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77 | both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. |
78 | ||
df8baa42 | 79 | When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a |
9553d20b | 80 | single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon |
df8baa42 | 81 | ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A |
9553d20b | 82 | single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. |
ab9b3138 | 83 | |
9553d20b | 84 | Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) |
ab9b3138 | 85 | and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be |
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86 | pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source |
87 | side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the | |
ae36bdcf | 88 | destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same |
0b444cdb | 89 | rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref |
483bc4f0 | 90 | name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. |
9553d20b | 91 | |
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92 | - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the |
93 | local refs. | |
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94 | |
95 | - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs. | |
96 | ||
97 | - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either | |
98 | ||
df8baa42 | 99 | * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the |
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100 | destination literally in this case. |
101 | ||
df8baa42 | 102 | * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not |
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103 | exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src> |
104 | locally is used as the name of the destination. | |
105 | ||
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106 | Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if |
107 | <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an | |
a75d7b54 | 108 | ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", |
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109 | is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the |
110 | remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. | |
111 | ||
a75d7b54 | 112 | With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs. |
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113 | |
114 | Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign | |
115 | to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref. | |
116 | ||
9553d20b | 117 | |
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118 | Author |
119 | ------ | |
120 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
121 | ||
122 | Documentation | |
123 | -------------- | |
124 | Documentation by Junio C Hamano. | |
125 | ||
126 | GIT | |
127 | --- | |
9e1f0a85 | 128 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |