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git-send-pack(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a
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higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
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Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
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updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
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Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
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end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
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repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
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a directory on the default $PATH.
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--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
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Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
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--all::
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Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
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update all heads that locally exist.
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--dry-run::
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Do everything except actually send the updates.
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--force::
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Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
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is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
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This flag disables the check. What this means is that
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the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
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care.
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--verbose::
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Run verbosely.
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--thin::
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Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
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on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
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<host>::
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A remote host to house the repository. When this
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part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
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ssh.
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<directory>::
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The repository to update.
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<ref>...::
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The remote refs to update.
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Specifying the Refs
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-------------------
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There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
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remote end.
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With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
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the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
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this flag.
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Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
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both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
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When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a
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single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
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":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
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single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
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Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
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and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
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pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
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side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
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destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
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rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
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name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
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- It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
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local refs.
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- It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.
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- If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
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* it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
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destination literally in this case.
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* <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
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exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
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locally is used as the name of the destination.
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Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
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<dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
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ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check",
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is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
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remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
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With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
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Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
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to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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