GIT-SEND-PACK(1)                                              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
       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.


       <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 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




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