Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt

   1 git-clone-pack(1)
   2 =================
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-clone-pack - Clones a repository by receiving packed objects.
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-clone-pack' [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Clones a repository into the current repository by invoking
  16 'git-upload-pack', possibly on the remote host via ssh, in
  17 the named repository, and stores the sent pack in the local
  18 repository.
  19
  20 OPTIONS
  21 -------
  22 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  23         Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  24         remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH.
  25         Installations of sshd ignore the user's environment
  26         setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  27         your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  28         default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  29         up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  30         who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  31         shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  32         the things up in .bash_profile).
  33
  34 <host>::
  35         A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
  36         part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
  37         ssh.
  38
  39 <directory>::
  40         The repository to sync from.
  41
  42 <head>...::
  43         The heads to update.  This is relative to $GIT_DIR
  44         (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When unspecified,
  45         all heads are updated to match the remote repository.
  46 +
  47 Usually all the refs from existing repository are stored
  48 under the same name in the new repository.  Giving explicit
  49 <head> arguments instead writes the object names and refs to
  50 the standard output, just like get-fetch-pack does.
  51
  52 Author
  53 ------
  54 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  55
  56 Documentation
  57 --------------
  58 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
  59
  60
  61 GIT
  62 ---
  63 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  64