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307<title>git-send-pack(1)</title>
308</head>
309<body>
310<div id="header">
311<h1>
312git-send-pack(1) Manual Page
313</h1>
314<h2>NAME</h2>
315<div class="sectionbody">
316<p>git-send-pack -
Junio C Hamanoee1e4282007-02-04 08:32:04[diff] [blame]317 Push objects over git protocol to another repository
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]318</p>
319</div>
320</div>
321<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
322<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]323<div class="para"><p><em>git send-pack</em> [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;] [--verbose] [--thin] [&lt;host&gt;:]&lt;directory&gt; [&lt;ref&gt;&#8230;]</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]324</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]325<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]326<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]327<div class="para"><p>Usually you would want to use <em>git-push</em>, which is a
328higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See <a href="git-push.html">git-push(1)</a>.</p></div>
329<div class="para"><p>Invokes <em>git-receive-pack</em> on a possibly remote repository, and
330updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]331</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]332<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]333<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]334<div class="vlist"><dl>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]335<dt>
Junio C Hamano4ad294b2007-01-20 02:22:50[diff] [blame]336--receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]337</dt>
338<dd>
339<p>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]340 Path to the <em>git-receive-pack</em> program on the remote
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]341 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
342 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
343 a directory on the default $PATH.
344</p>
345</dd>
346<dt>
Junio C Hamano4ad294b2007-01-20 02:22:50[diff] [blame]347--exec=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;
348</dt>
349<dd>
350<p>
351 Same as --receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;.
352</p>
353</dd>
354<dt>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]355--all
356</dt>
357<dd>
358<p>
359 Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
Junio C Hamanod2d9ae12007-09-19 02:27:57[diff] [blame]360 update all heads that locally exist.
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]361</p>
362</dd>
363<dt>
Junio C Hamano764a6672007-10-23 01:23:31[diff] [blame]364--dry-run
365</dt>
366<dd>
367<p>
368 Do everything except actually send the updates.
369</p>
370</dd>
371<dt>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]372--force
373</dt>
374<dd>
375<p>
376 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
377 is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
378 This flag disables the check. What this means is that
379 the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
380 care.
381</p>
382</dd>
383<dt>
Junio C Hamano4ad294b2007-01-20 02:22:50[diff] [blame]384--verbose
385</dt>
386<dd>
387<p>
388 Run verbosely.
389</p>
390</dd>
391<dt>
392--thin
393</dt>
394<dd>
395<p>
396 Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
397 Use it on slower connection.
398</p>
399</dd>
400<dt>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]401&lt;host&gt;
402</dt>
403<dd>
404<p>
405 A remote host to house the repository. When this
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]406 part is specified, <em>git-receive-pack</em> is invoked via
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]407 ssh.
408</p>
409</dd>
410<dt>
411&lt;directory&gt;
412</dt>
413<dd>
414<p>
415 The repository to update.
416</p>
417</dd>
Junio C Hamano21c0b422006-10-12 19:10:36[diff] [blame]418<dt>
419&lt;ref&gt;&#8230;
420</dt>
421<dd>
422<p>
423 The remote refs to update.
424</p>
425</dd>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]426</dl></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]427</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]428<h2 id="_specifying_the_refs">Specifying the Refs</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]429<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]430<div class="para"><p>There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
431remote end.</p></div>
432<div class="para"><p>With <em>--all</em> flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]433the remote side. You cannot specify any <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em> if you use
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]434this flag.</p></div>
435<div class="para"><p>Without <em>--all</em> and without any <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em>, the heads that exist
436both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.</p></div>
437<div class="para"><p>When one or more <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em> are specified explicitly, it can be either a
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]438single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
439":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]440single pattern <em>&lt;name&gt;</em> is just a shorthand for <em>&lt;name&gt;:&lt;name&gt;</em>.</p></div>
441<div class="para"><p>Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]442and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
443pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
444side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
Junio C Hamanoe0facb92007-12-05 10:59:48[diff] [blame]445destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]446rules used by <em>git-rev-parse</em> to resolve a symbolic ref
447name. See <a href="git-rev-parse.html">git-rev-parse(1)</a>.</p></div>
448<div class="ilist"><ul>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]449<li>
450<p>
451It is an error if &lt;src&gt; does not match exactly one of the
452 local refs.
453</p>
454</li>
455<li>
456<p>
457It is an error if &lt;dst&gt; matches more than one remote refs.
458</p>
459</li>
460<li>
461<p>
462If &lt;dst&gt; does not match any remote ref, either
463</p>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]464<div class="ilist"><ul>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]465<li>
466<p>
467it has to start with "refs/"; &lt;dst&gt; is used as the
468 destination literally in this case.
469</p>
470</li>
471<li>
472<p>
473&lt;src&gt; == &lt;dst&gt; and the ref that matched the &lt;src&gt; must not
474 exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched &lt;src&gt;
475 locally is used as the name of the destination.
476</p>
477</li>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]478</ul></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]479</li>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]480</ul></div>
481<div class="para"><p>Without <em>--force</em>, the &lt;src&gt; ref is stored at the remote only if
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]482&lt;dst&gt; does not exist, or &lt;dst&gt; is a proper subset (i.e. an
483ancestor) of &lt;src&gt;. This check, known as "fast forward check",
484is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]485remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.</p></div>
486<div class="para"><p>With <em>--force</em>, the fast forward check is disabled for all refs.</p></div>
487<div class="para"><p>Optionally, a &lt;ref&gt; parameter can be prefixed with a plus <em>+</em> sign
488to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]489</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]490<h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]491<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]492<div class="para"><p>Written by Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]493</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]494<h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]495<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]496<div class="para"><p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano.</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]497</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]498<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]499<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]500<div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]501</div>
502<div id="footer">
503<div id="footer-text">
Junio C Hamano73d812c2009-07-01 02:33:06[diff] [blame]504Last updated 2009-07-01 02:31:02 UTC
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]505</div>
506</div>
507</body>
508</html>