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 'git push', which is a
  16 higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
  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         Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
  52         on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
  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. The rules used to match a ref are the same
  89 rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
  90 name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
  91
  92  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
  93    local refs.
  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
  99    * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
 100      destination literally in this case.
 101
 102    * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
 103      exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
 104      locally is used as the name of the destination.
 105
 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
 108 ancestor) of <src>.  This check, known as "fast-forward check",
 109 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
 110 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
 111
 112 With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
 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
 117 GIT
 118 ---
 119 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite