git-send-pack (1)

Name

git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository

Synopsis

git send-pack [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]

Description

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NAME
     git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another
     repository

SYNOPSIS
     git send-pack [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]


DESCRIPTION
     Usually you would want to use git push, which is a
     higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See git-
     push(1).

     Invokes git-receive-pack on a possibly remote repository,
     and updates it from the current repository, sending named
     refs.

OPTIONS
     --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>
         Path to the git-receive-pack program on the remote end.
         Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote repository
         over ssh, and you do not have the program in a directory
         on the default $PATH.

     --exec=<git-receive-pack>
         Same as --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.

     --all
         Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
         update all heads that locally exist.

     --dry-run
         Do everything except actually send the updates.

     --force
         Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
         is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite
         it. This flag disables the check. What this means is
         that the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
         care.

     --verbose
         Run verbosely.

     --thin
         Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified
         form based on objects not included in the pack to reduce
         network traffic.

     <host>
         A remote host to house the repository. When this part is
         specified, git-receive-pack is invoked via ssh.



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     <directory>
         The repository to update.

     <ref>...
         The remote refs to update.

SPECIFYING THE REFS
     There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
     remote end.

     With --all flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred
     to the remote side. You cannot specify any <ref> if you use
     this flag.

     Without --all and without any <ref>, the heads that exist
     both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.

     When one or more <ref> are specified explicitly, it can be
     either a single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated
     by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a
     colon in it). A single pattern <name> is just a shorthand
     for <name>:<name>.

     Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the
     colon) and the destination side (after the colon). The ref
     to be pushed is determined by finding a match that matches
     the source side, and where it is pushed is determined by
     using the destination side. The rules used to match a ref
     are the same rules used by git rev-parse to resolve a
     symbolic ref name. See git-rev-parse(1).

     o   It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of
         the local refs.

     o   It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote
         refs.

     o   If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either

         o   it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
             destination literally in this case.

         o   <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src>
             must not exist in the set of remote refs; the ref
             matched <src> locally is used as the name of the
             destination.

     Without --force, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only
     if <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e.
     an ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward
     check", is performed in order to avoid accidentally
     overwriting the remote ref and lose other peoples' commits



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     from there.

     With --force, the fast-forward check is disabled for all
     refs.

     Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus +
     sign to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.

GIT
     Part of the git(1) suite



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Availability   | developer/versioning/git |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted              |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from  http://git-
     core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.























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